Al Mat'haf

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Al Mat'haf (al-Mathaf, "The Museum") is a small, private museum in Gaza City, Palestine, focused on archaeology of the Gaza Strip. The museum is part of a privately owned hotel, also named Al Mat'haf, that includes a restaurant and conference center; both the hotel and its small museum opened to the public in the fall of 2008. The privately owned museum houses antiquities discovered in the Gaza Strip from various historical periods. The museum is owned by the businessman Jawdat N. Khoudary, who owns a series of construction companies in Gaza.

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