The Bardo Museum is located in Tunis, the capital city of Tunisia. This is the largest museum in the country and is a must-see attraction for any visitors to Tunisia. Their opening hours are from 9am to 5pm between May 1st to September 30th, and from 9:30am to 4:30pm between October 1st to April 30th. Entry fees cost 11 Tunisian Dinars per person.
The Bardo Museum contains the largest collection of mosaics in the world. It also features prehistorical artifacts and jewelry, cultural Roman sarcophaguses (stone coffins), Roman epoch sculptures, Christian baptisteries, Islamic artifacts, and much more. The large collection of historical and cultural items in this museum are gathered from major excavations from many regions of the country.
The museum is sectioned into many departments including Prehistory, Phoenician-Punic civilization, the Numidian world, the underwater Mahdia collection, Late Antiquity, Islam, Christianity, Carthage Gallery, and others. A tour through the museum will feel like a journey through time to explore the rich and preserved cultural heritage and history of Tunisia.
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