What you can see inThe Bardo Museum in Tunisia

The Bardo National Museum is located in the suburbs of Tunis. It was a former nineteenth century- Bey's palace which gives it a prestigious and beautiful appearance.However,what makes it one of the most important museums of the Mediterranean basin and the second on the African continent after the Egyptian Museum is that
its content traces the history of Tunisia with its various civilizations all along several millenia with reference to numerous archaeological pieces.
1-Roman mosaics
Excavations have started in Tunisia since the beginning of the twentieth century in archaeological sites like  Carthage, Hadrumetum, Dougga, and Utica which allowed the museum to bring together  one of the finest and largest collections of Roman mosaics and made of it  a unique source for research on everyday life in Roman Africa

TUNISIA - TUNIS, NORTH AFRICA’S SECRET CITY

Ulysses on his Voyage

2-Roman emperors
The Bardo museum contains a rich collection of marble statues representing the gods and Roman emperors collected from various  archaeological sites including those of Carthage and Thuburbo Majus.

Roman Emperor Caracalla

 head of Emperor Lucius Verus found at Dogga 

3-Ancient Greek and Punic antiquities 
The Bardo museum contains an important collection of grimacing masks, terracotta statues and stelae of major interest for the Semitic epigraphy, the stele of the priest and the child being the most famous. The Museum also houses Greek works discovered in particular in the excavations of the ship of Mahdia.

Neptune and the Four Seasons (IInd century AD from Chebba near Mahdia 

4-The Islamic collection

The Islamic depatment in the Bardo museum contains an important collection of ceramics from North Africa and the Ottoman empire in addition to famous works such as the Blue Qur'an of Kairouan

Folio from the "Blue" Qur'an, 9th-10th century. Ink, opaque watercolor, silver and gold on blue-dyed parchment