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Holdings:
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The ethnographic collection: musical instruments, weapons and harnesses, jewelry, clothing, shoes, boxes, weaving, embroiderie, fabric, cult objects, body treatments and decoration, wooden furniture, glass, pottery, Algerian and African basket-making, painting, porcelain, brasswork, leather, popular medicine, agriculture, lamps. Ethnographic collection de Libya, Tunisia, Morocco: religious paintings. Prehistoric collection: lower, middle and upper Paleolithic (Algeria, Tunisia, Europe); Neolithic (Algeria, elsewhere); protohistoric: Tin Hinan (queen of the Tuaregs), prehistoric art, American Indian collection, shells, fossils, marine fossils (Tunisia, Morocco, Europe). African Collection: ethnographic. |
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Types
of materials:
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artifacts |
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Languages:
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French |
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Size
of collections:
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The collections bring together approximately 15,500 ethnographic, prehistoric, protohistoric, and African art pieces. |
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Receiving
new material?
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Year
founded:
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1930 |
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Repository
publications:
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"Musee National du Bardo" (brochure), n.d. |
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Repository
references:
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