The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cultural Heritage Program

• To enhance citizen’s awareness on the glorious unity of his homeland.
• To rehabilitate and operate State’s historic palaces and buildings in the reign of King Abdul Aziz and transform them into cultural centers to highlight different stages of the national unity and show the extent of the association of these sites with the Saudi people’s historic sacrifices to bring about the national unity.
• To protect and preserve the antiquities, display them nationally and internationally, and recover the illegally smuggled out antiquities.
• To pay special attention to the Islamic history sites.
• To rehabilitate and prepare archeological sites and ancient trade routes and employ them in the comprehensive development.
• To establish, develop and operate museums across the provinces and municipalities.
• To develop heritage villages, historic city centers, and popular souks.
• To preserve handicrafts in order to create job opportunities for Saudi people and transform them into an effective element of the national economy.

To rehabilitate, develop and preserve the components of cultural heritage. To raise awareness of its importance and make it a part of people’s daily life and memory and being proud of it. To achieve a quantum leap in the care of the heritage and link it to tourism industry in order to contribute to the comprehensive development of economy.

To achieve a breakthrough in the care of Kingdom’s antiquities, museums, handicrafts and urban heritage, and rehabilitate them in a way that contributes in the comprehensive economic development and create a national memory that is proud of cultural heritage of the Kingdom.

• To document and record the Islamic history sites.
• To rehabilitate water wells and water resources related to Prophetic Sira times.
• To rehabilitate Prophet’s Hejra (Migration) route.
• To register Islamic history sites in the National heritage records.

• To develop Khozam Palace in the city of Jeddah and transform it into a museum of Islamic Heritage.
• To rehabilitate the Photo Museum in Al Badiyah Palace.
• To rehabilitate King Abdul Aziz Palace in Al Kharj and transform it into a museum and a cultural center in Al Kharj down town.
• To rehabilitate King Abdul Aziz Palace in Al Ma’abda and transform it into a museum for Makkah.
• To establish 8 new museums across the provinces.
• To develop 6 existing museums.
• To equip, prepare, display museum exhibits in the regional museums (14 museums).
• To establish Qur’an Oasis.
• To rehabilitate a number of archeological sites.
• To rehabilitate trade and Haj ancient routes.
• To rehabilitate archeological objects.
• To rehabilitate museums the municipalities that are located in the State’s historic buildings.
• To expand National Museum.

• To ensure museums and archeological sites are well equipped and provided with security guards.
• To undertake operation and maintenance of museums and sites opened for visitors.
• To undertake “rescue restoration” of archeological sites.

• To classify and record urban heritage sites.
• To document urban heritage buildings.
• To rehabilitate and develop models of heritage towns and villages.
• To undertake urgent rescue works for heritage and ramshackle buildings.
• To conduct urban heritage exhibition and forums.
• To rehabilitate citizens’ heritage buildings that are already handed over to SCTH.
• To develop urban heritage in historic seaports at Red Sea coast (Yanbu, Amlaj, Al Wajh, Deba, Al Laith, and Al Ghonfoza).
• To establish urban heritage centers.

• To provide antiquities’ monitors.
• To recover national antiquities.
• To survey and prepare (cadastral maps) in order to get ownership deeds for the archeological sites.
• Survey and archeological excavations.
• Specialized archeological studies.
• To record further the Kingdom’s historic sides in the UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
• To discover sunken antiquities.
• To fence, install caution and information signboards at the archeological sites.
• To expropriate the heritage and archeological sites owned by citizens.
• To record heritage and archeological objects.
• To apply archeological observation throughout Kingdom’s provinces.
• To adopt scientific publication and development of ways of channels of publication.

• Museums and archeological sites’ operational programs.
• Visiting exhibitions.
• Technical support to private museums.
• Technical equipment for museums and archeological sites.
• Museum education.
• Development of existing exhibits in the National Museum.

• To establish handicraft centers in each of the provinces and municipalities in the Kingdom.
• To develop handicraft business in popular souks.
• To undertake audiovisual documentation of handicraft.
• To invest in handicraft at urban heritage sites.
• Handicraft regulation.

• Enhance cultural dimension in the public educational programs.
• Information campaigns.
• Raising awareness and introducing Kingdom’s care towards the Islamic history sites inside and outside the Kingdom.
• Producing series of documentaries on the Kingdom’s antiquities and heritage.
• Kingdom’s Cultural Heritage Forum.
• Series of lectures and symposiums.
• To establish platforms for the Custodian’s Caring Program on the social media and update their content persistently.
• Field communication with partners.
• To communicate with the international media.
• Production of print material on cultural heritage.

• To support all archeological sites in the Kingdom with qualified cadres.
• To operate new museums with qualified cadres (18 museums).
• To hire specialists for antiquities and heritage.
• To support all urban heritage sites with qualified cadres.
• To train national cadres in antiquities and museums sector in SCTH.
• To train antiquities and heritage staff on English language.
• To adopt joint training with the international museums.

• Historic Jeddah festival.
• Souk Okaz festival.
• Antiquities and heritage sites events.