REPOSITORIES
Musée National de Préhistoire et d'Ethnographie du Bardo  
Contact Information  
 
Postal Address:
03, rue Franklin Roosevelt, Telemly
Alger 16000, Algeria
 
Director:
Madame BOUKLI Aïcha Née MERABET
Telephone:
213-2-74-76-41
Fax:
213-2-74-24-53
Access Information  
 
Access Conditions:
entrance fee
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  Collections  
Holdings:
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.
Types of materials:
artifacts
Languages:
French
Size of collections:
The collections bring together approximately 15,500 ethnographic, prehistoric, protohistoric, and African art pieces.
Receiving new material?
Year founded:
1930
Repository publications:
"Musee National du Bardo" (brochure), n.d.
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