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Salt Folklore Museum: located in the Salt Cultural
Center just off the main street. The museum opened in
1987 was established for the conservation and display of
the popular heritage of al-Balqa. It is comprised of two
sections, Bedouin and village life. Each of those
sections illustrates the culture of Jordanian Society,
how they lived and how they adapted with their
surrounding culture and environment.
In the Bedouin section there is a goat hair tent
consisting of two parts: ash-Shaq where the man of the
household and his male guests sit and al-Mahram where
women sit. In ash-shaq the coffee ritual takes place
with the coffee pot (Dallah), the coffee roasting pan (Mehmas)
and mortar for grinding coffee (Mehbash). On display
there are the weapons used for the defense of the tribe,
such as the sword and gun.
The village house is built with reeds and re-used
archaeological stone blocks. In it is the folded up
bedding and the special chest for keeping the family
heirlooms. Household activities are demonstrated by
models of women baking bread and grinding wheat. |
