| Bardo National Museum | |
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| French: Musée national du Bardo Arabic المتحف الوطني بباردو |
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Carthage Room, Bardo National Museum (2005) |
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| Location | Tunis, Tunisia |
| Type | National museum |
| Website | http://www.museedebardo-tunisie.tn/test/presentation.php (in French; icon on homepage for English version was inoperative as of 10 October 2011[update]) |
The Bardo National Museum (in French: Musée national du Bardo; in Arabic: المتحف الوطني بباردو) is a museum located in Tunis, Tunisia.
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The museum's building was originally a 13th-century Hafsid palace, located in the the-suburbs of Tunis.
It contains a major collection of Roman mosaics and other antiquities of interest from Ancient Greece, Tunisia, and from the Islamic period.
The museum displays objects ranging from pre-historical artefacts to modern jewellery.
As of 11 December 2010, the museum was under reconstruction so most of the collection was packed away. There were a large number of mosaics and a few statues and busts to see, but no pre-historic artefacts or jewellery were on display.