Editing Beirut (section)

===Museums===
[[File:Beirut Museum.jpg|thumb|right|The National Museum of Beirut]]
[[File:Sursock house.jpg|thumb|[[Sursock Museum]]]]
The [[National Museum of Beirut]] is the principal museum of [[archaeology]] in Lebanon. It has about 1,300 exhibits ranging in date from [[History of ancient Lebanon|prehistoric times]] to the [[History of Lebanon under Arab rule|medieval Mamluk period]].<ref name=MuseDamsc>{{cite web |url=http://www.beirutnationalmuseum.com/e-histoire.htm |title=History |work=beirutnationalmuseum.com |publisher=National Museum of Beirut |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818152333/http://www.beirutnationalmuseum.com/e-histoire.htm |archive-date=18 August 2013}}</ref> The [[Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut]] is the third-oldest museum in the Middle East, exhibiting a wide range of artefacts from Lebanon and neighboring countries.<ref name=MuseumThis>{{cite web |url=http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/museum/ |title=AUB Museum |publisher=Ddc.aub.edu.lb |access-date=5 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602122900/http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/museum/ |archive-date=2 June 2009 }}</ref> [[Sursock Museum]] was built by the illustrious [[Sursock family]] at the end of the 19th century as a private villa for [[Nicolas Sursock]], and then donated to the Lebanese state upon his death. It now houses Beirut's most influential and popular art museum. The permanent collection shows a set of Japanese engravings, numerous works of [[Islamic art]] and classic Italian paintings, while temporary exhibitions are also shown throughout the year. The [[Robert Mouawad Private Museum]] near Beirut's [[Grand Serail]] exhibits [[Henri Philippe Pharaoun|Henri Pharaon's]] private collection of archaeology and antiques.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rmpm.info/ |title=Welcome to Robert Mouawad Private museum |publisher=Rmpm.info |access-date=5 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501145958/http://www.rmpm.info/ |archive-date=1 May 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://sursockhouse.com/ |title=SursockHouse |website=SursockHouse |access-date=24 May 2018 |archive-date=25 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525062827/https://sursockhouse.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Planet Discovery is a children's science museum with interactive experiments, exhibitions, performances, workshops and awareness competitions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.solidere.com/history/planet.html |title=Beirut City Center Culture&nbsp;– Planet Discovery |publisher=Solidere |access-date=5 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725083622/http://www.solidere.com/history/planet.html |archive-date=25 July 2008}}</ref> The Saint Joseph University opened the [[Museum of Lebanese Prehistory]] in 2000, the first prehistory museum in the Arabic Middle East, displaying bones, stone tools and neolithic pottery collected by Jesuits.<ref name="UMAC">{{cite web |url=http://publicus.culture.hu-berlin.de/collections/detail.php?dsn=549 |title=UMAC Worldwide Database of University Museums & Collections |publisher=Publicus.culture.hu-berlin.de |access-date=5 September 2011 |archive-date=19 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719164622/http://publicus.culture.hu-berlin.de/collections/detail.php?dsn=549 }}</ref>

In October 2013, [[Mim Museum]], a private [[mineral]] museum, opened its doors to the public. It has on display some 2000 minerals from more than 70 countries. Mim museum's collection is considered to be one of the world's paramount private collection for the variety and quality of its minerals.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Opening of the Mim Mineral Museum in Beirut, Lebanon |last=Wilson |first=W. |date=2013 |journal=The Mineralogical Record |volume=45 |number=1 |pages=61–83}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mindat.org/article.php/1807/The%20MIM%20Museum%20opening,%20Lebanon |title=Peter Lyckberg – The MIM Museum opening, Lebanon |access-date=25 August 2016}}</ref> A didactic circuit, accompanied by screens showing films and scientific applications of mineralogy, will reveal a world of unsuspected marvels—priceless both from an aesthetic and scientific point of view. ''Mimodactylus libanensis'' "mimo", the fossil of a pterodactyl, is featured in a special wing. This one-of-a-kind complete specimen in the Middle-East was found in Lebanon. It is promoted by means of state-of-the-art modern techniques: a hologram, an auto-stereoscopic movie, a full-scale reconstitution and a game "fly with mimo" – an entertainment that delights children and adults. Moreover, Mim hosts a thematic exhibition of 200 marine fossils. "Fish'n'Stone" was organised with the collaboration of Mémoire du Temps. Known throughout the world, those fossils were quarried in the Lebanese mountains. The history of the fossil formation is shown through an animation that submerses you in the marine life – a time capsule that takes you in a journey to some 100&nbsp;million of years ago.