OUR PAST, OUR FUTURE, ALL TOGETHER IN FAYNAN

法伊南位于约旦南部瓦迪阿拉巴河东侧的死海以南。这是一个经济落后的地区，畜牧业和以灌溉为基础的农业为居住在法伊南的四个贝都因部落的成员提供了生计：Ammarin， Sa'idiyyin， Rashaydah和Azazmah。在过去的四十年里，来自英国、美国和德国的研究团队在约旦古物部的支持下，发现并探索了它非凡的考古景观。虽然有许多学术出版物，但这一文化遗产尚未充分用于支持进入法南的生态旅游，而生态旅游可能是可持续经济增长的主要收入来源。当地社区也没有获得文化遗产，也没有将其用于支持社会凝聚力、教育和福祉。古物部建立法伊南博物馆为在这两个问题上取得进展提供了机会。在2016年至2018年期间，一个由AHRC资助的项目（发现WF16）在博物馆内建立了第一个展览，并在考古遗址提供了少量信息板。该项目的成功证明了进一步发展博物馆的价值。这个新项目将涉及英国和约旦学者以及法伊南社区之间的密切合作。它得到了约旦旅游和古物部的全力支持，这将使博物馆在支持当地社区实现可持续发展方面的能力发生重大变化。通过提高人们的认识和理解，该项目还将有助于保护和保存法伊南的文化遗产，以应对灌溉农业、道路和水坝发展的扩张。该项目包括六个子项目，它们将：共同创建一个增强的画廊空间，在博物馆内展示法伊南过去100年的历史。2 .促进当地社区成员以自己的方式讲述他们自己的历史和关于法伊南的故事，并在博物馆内表现出来。支持法伊南的六所学校提高对法伊南文化遗产的认识和理解，并将其融入学习和教学中。通过在另外20个考古遗址安装信息板，将博物馆与景观联系起来。通过使用摄影测量法，在博物馆内和法伊南遗产网站上记录和数字展示法伊南的考古遗址，使那些无法参观法伊南或无法进入其偏远地区遗址的人能够进入法伊南的考古遗址。通过为附近的成人和儿童设计社交和游戏空间，使博物馆成为社区中心。这些项目中的每一个都将通过讲习班与法伊南当地社区成员共同开发。最终建成的博物馆将支持该地区的生态旅游，为当地社区提供一种以自己的方式展示自己历史的方式，支持教育、社会和个人福祉，并有助于保护和保存法伊南的文化遗产。

Faynan is located south of the Dead Sea on the eastern side of Wadi Araba in southern Jordan. This is an economically deprived area, with pastoralism and irrigation-based farming providing livelihood to members of four Bedouin tribes who live within Faynan: the 'Ammarin, Sa'idiyyin, Rashaydah and 'Azazmah. It has a remarkable archaeological landscape that has been discovered and explored by research teams from the UK, US and Germany over the last forty years, all with support from the Jordanian Department of Antiquities. While there have been many academic publications, this cultural heritage has not been sufficiently used to support eco-tourism into Faynan which could be a major source of income for sustainable economic growth. Neither has the cultural heritage been made accessible to the local community and used to support social cohesiveness, education and well-being. The establishment of the Faynan Museum by the Department of Antiquities has provided an opportunity to make progress on both of these matters. Between 2016 and 2018, an AHRC funded project (Discovering WF16) established the first displays within the museum and provided a small number of information boards at the archaeological sites. The success of that project demonstrated the value of further developing the museum. This new project will involve a close collaboration between UK and Jordanian academics, and the Faynan community. It has the full support of the Jordanian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities will make a step change in the ability of the museum to support the local community for sustainable development. By raising awareness and understanding, the project will also help protect and conserve the cultural heritage of Faynan in the face of an expansion of irrigation farming, road and dam development. The project involves six sub-projects that will:1. Co-create an enhanced gallery space to include representation of the last 100 years of Faynan's history within the musuem2. Facilitate members of the local community to tell their own history and stories about Faynan in their own way, and represent this within the museum.3. Support the six schools in Faynan to develop an awareness and understanding of Faynan's cultural heritage and embed this into the learning and teaching4. Connect the museum to the landscape by installing information boards at a further 20 archaeological sites,5. Make accessible the archaeological sites of Faynan to those who cannot visit Faynan or cannot access the sites in its remote areas by using photogrammetry to document and digitally represent the sites within the museum and on the Faynan heritage website6. Enable the museum to become a community hub by designing social and play space for adults and children in its immediate vicinity.Each of these projects will be developed jointly with members of the local community in Faynan via workshops. The outcome will be a museum that will support eco-tourism in the region, provide the local community with a means to represent their own history in their own way, support education, social and individual well-being, and help to protect and conserve Faynan's cultural heritage.