Bardo National Museum

Bardo National Museum

Exhibition room of the Bardo National Museum

The National Museum of Bardo (French: Musée national du Bardo , Arabic المتحف الوطني بباردو, DMG al-Matḥaf al-Waṭanī bi-Bārdū ) is - before the Archaeological Museum of Sousse - the largest archaeological museum in Tunisia . It is located around 4 km west of the city center of Tunis in the Le Bardo district and, along with the Zeugma Mosaic Museum, which opened in Turkey in 2011, has the world's most important collection of Roman mosaics .

In addition to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo , the Bardo Museum is the most important archaeological museum in North Africa .

history

Foundation and naming

The museum is mainly housed in the spacious rooms of the former harem of the Bardo Palace and was opened as the Musée Alaoui on May 7, 1888 during the French protectorate . The museum was given its current name after the country gained independence in 1956.

Assassination 2015

→ Main article : Attack in Tunis in 2015

On March 18, 2015, the Bardo Museum and the neighboring Tunisian parliament were the target of an attack with several dead.

Departments

The museum contains 30 rooms spread over three floors and offers a broad historical and artistic overview, ranging from early history to the Punic, Greek, Roman, early Christian and Arab epochs. The focus of the exhibits is on Roman art , including the altar of Gens Augusta, and in particular on mosaics , of which around a thousand are shown, from large-scale floor decorations to portraits and small-scale representations.

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  Terracotta figure by Baal-Hammon

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  Tanit figure with lion head

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  Carthaginian woman

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  Dead songbirds

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  Diana and hind

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  Still life

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  Dominus Julius mosaic

literature

• Michèle Blanchard-Lemée, Mongi Ennaïfer, Hédi Slim, Latifa Slim: Sols de l'Afrique romaine. Mosaïques de Tunisie. Imprimerie nationale, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7433-0056-6 (French).
• Giovanna Magi, Patrizia Fabbri: Art and History of Tunisia. Casa Editrice Bonechi, Florence 2008, ISBN 978-88-476-2179-4 , pp. 13-20.

Web links

Commons : Bardo National Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the National Museum of Bardo (Arabic, French, English)
• Bardo National Museum . In: TunesienInformationen.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Art site as a scene of horror. In: Sueddeutsche.de. March 18, 2015, accessed February 29, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 36 ° 48 ′ 33.8 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 4.2 ″  E