Bardo National Museum

Bardo National Museum

Overview

• One of the most important tourist attractions in Tunisia, especially in the city of Bardo, which is just 4 km from the green Tunis, the Tunisian capital, is the Bardo National Museum.

• It is a special museum of antiquities that were found from excavations dating back to different historical eras of Tunisian history. The museum has gained Arab and international fame, and the museum was established more than 100 years ago inside an old palace, so it is considered the oldest museum in Tunisia.

Museum contents:

Halls in the museum up to 50 halls, each of which includes a different group of antiquities dating back to different historical times, including paintings dating back to ancient times.

One of the most important halls that you must visit is the prehistoric hall. And in the hall, you will find pottery and stone tools that people used during this ancient era.

There is a section of the Lobby Archeology - Nubian - Numidian, and this section includes many pieces of local and imported ceramics and pottery.

Then you should go to the Roman Antiquities Department. The importance of this section is that it contains statues of mosaic paintings that the museum is famous for.

It also includes Mahdia Pavilion, which contains a number of monuments discovered by Greek sailors between 1907 and 1911, including the statue of Hermas.

Resources:

official website

Urtrips

Heritage Revival and Cultural Development Agency

The Open Encyclopedia of Tunisia

noonpost

tripadvisor

aljazeera

Portal of the National Institute of Heritage

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