Curéan Museum in Medina, great attraction for visitors

The number of visitors to the Koran Museum, founded two years ago in the holy city of Medina in Saudi Arabia, has exceeded over two million.

The museum, in which material is displayed about the history of Kur '%an and the 23-year period of divine proclamation and rare manuscripts of Kur '%an, offers free services to visitors, reports the Anadolu Agency (AA).

Hamza Musa Abdullah Ademi, director of the Curéan Museum, told AA that the museum, which was founded in the vicinity of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, aims to introduce the Prophet Muhammad through new technologies to guests.

Adem says that they have encountered great interest in the open museum in September 2015 and that over two million people have so far visited it.

It shows that museum guidance is offered in 13 different languages and that services for visitors are free. According to him, visitors can see the Curian manuscripts, the old calligraphy picture 150 years and other materials showing the 23-year period of proclamation, using sophisticated technologies.

The museum also exhibits the world's largest Kuréan book, written 200 years earlier in Afghanistan by calligrapher Gulam Muhiddin, who had been transported over four camels to the Koran Museum because of the weight of 154kg in Medina.

At 13 museum halls, visitors are able to see a total of 57 Kurʹan manuscripts. Meanwhile, great attention is drawn to the manuscript written by calligrapher Ali bin Muhamed el-Batlijus in Magib's calligraphy style in 488 according to the Islamic calendar, as the oldest manuscript in the museum.

Also displayed is a cover of the Temple from the period of Sultan Abdelham II from the Ottoman period, as well as the old calligraphy picture 150 years ago.