The “Bardo Museum” one of the 10 most beautiful museums in the world!
Considered as the museum holding the richest roman mosaics collection in the world, The National Museum of Bardo comes in the ranking of the 10 most beautiful museums in the world.
The Italian magazine “Corriere della Sera” is an Italian newspaper that has recently made a list of the most beautiful museums in the world. This list mentions prestigious museums such as the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, The British Museum in London, the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul in Topkapi, the Montemartini Centrale in Roma, the Archaeological Museum of Naples and The National Museum of Bardo.
The Bardo National Museum housed in an old nineteenth century beylical palace, is a jewel of the Tunisian heritage. It traces through its collections a large part of the history of Tunisia over several millennia and through several civilizations through a wide variety of archaeological pieces.
The Bardo Museum has earned a worldwide reputation for its collection of mosaics, considered the richest, most varied and most refined and which finds among its most beautiful illustrations paintings depicting Virgil surrounded by muses, or the pavement representing Dionysus giving the vine to Ikarios, or the other celebrating the triumph of Neptune, to name just a few of the centerpieces. But this is not the only wealth of this museum.
Thousands of artefacts from excavations throughout the country during the 19th and 20th centuries are on display. These objects, grouped by departments and distributed in about fifty rooms and galleries, are reflecting the various stages traversed by Tunisia, from prehistory to the middle of the last century.
These are, in chronological order: prehistory, the Punic Libyan period, the Roman and early Christian periods, with the vandal and Byzantine sequences and, finally, the Islamic period that runs until the contemporary era.
- “Le Musée national du Bardo classé parmi les 10 plus beaux musées au monde!” article published on the “Voyage Tunisie” website.