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Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums

Directorate-General for Antiquities and Museums
المديرية العامة للآثار والمتاحف
Agency overview
Formed1946
JurisdictionSyria
HeadquartersDamascus
Agency executive
  • Mohammad Nazir Awad, Director-General
Parent departmentMinistry of Culture
Parent agencyGovernment of Syria
Websitewww.dgam.gov.sy Edit this at Wikidata

The Directorate-General for Antiquities and Museums (DGAM); Arabic: المديرية العامة للآثار والمتاحف, French: Direction générale des antiquités et des musées) is a Syrian government-owned agency that is responsible for the protection, promotion and excavation activities in all sites of national heritage in the country. The Directorate was established shortly after Syria's independence in 1946 under the central supervision of the Ministry of Culture.[1]

  1. ^ "Directorate-General for Antiquities and Museums". dgam.gov.sy. Syria. Archived from the original on December 15, 2020. Retrieved 2023-02-13.

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