Bardo Museum, Tunis

Bardo Museum - details and images

Bardo Museum (bardo means garden and parado means paradise, in Portuguese), in Tunis, hosted in the former palace of a French governor of Tunis Beille, is one of the largest museums in Africa mosaics.

The Bardo Museum are the dominant parts of the Carthaginian period, Romanian, Christian and Arab-Islamic: countless mosaics, preserved and exhibited, statues, fresco, urns, tombstones, household indoor inventory, items of clothing, ornaments and jewelry etc. . And exhibition spaces are parts of the periods Vandals, Byzantine, Turkish, Arabic etc..

Using color-coding were mozaiucuri from different periods: Punic (Phoenician), beige, Romanian-blue-pink Christian, and Arab-green, each representing activities in those periods, agriculture (crops, sow, looks), flora and fauna (elephants, lions, tigers), sailing and many other scenes.

There are about 34 rooms that can be grouped as follows:
Romanian Carthage Hall (Room IX): exhibitions with many statues, mosaics, bas-reliefs of Carthage and the surrounding Romanian: Utica, Oudhna, Dougga.
Virgil Hall (Room XV): African mosaic, a portrait of Virgil
Dougga Hall (Room XI): mosaic pieces used in paving;
Mahdia Hall (Halls XVII - XXII): exhibition of objects from excavations carried out in the sub-marine Mahdiei, marble and bronze sculptures of outstanding quality, and mosaic pavements in the region of Carthage and Utica;

Christian mosaics room (Room V): bas-relief of exhibitions libico-Punic civilization, Christian-era funerary objects: tomb mosaics and sarcophagi.
Sousse Room (Room X): mosaics from the capital of the Sahel, Sousse, ancient Hadrumete.
Arab Museum: it is entirely devoted to the Arab-Muslim civilization, and includes two main sections: one dedicated to the Middle Ages, the other character ethnographic present aspects of modernity through different objects that belong to everyday life.
Here's what CLE contain important rooms of the museum:
Room V - floors, mosaics and sarcophagi, tomb of the Christian era (IV and V century)

VI Hall - mosaics: Andromeda (sec. III-IV), statues Apollo, Aesculapius, Ceres and kings: Lucius Verus and Gordien I.
Room IX - General Augusta ornate altar dedicated in bas-relief, mosaics, floors from Oudhna; statues Cartagena region: kings: Bacchus, Jupiter, Serapis, Empress Julia Lord, statues: bronze of Hercules and Bacchus.
Room X - Mosaics: The Triumph of Neptune, Lord Julius (Carthage, sec. IV-V), playing circus (Carthage, sec. III)
Room XI - Mosaics: The Triumph of Neptune (Chebba, sec. II), fishermen (Carthage, sec. II), Cyclops (Dougga, sec. III).
Room XII mosaics (El Jem, sec. III): The Triumph of Bacchus, hunting with dogs, the new muse.

Room XIII - mosaics: the catalog of battles, hunting of wild animals (Carthage, sec. IV), hunting scenes (Carthage, sec. IV), seascapes, banquet (Carthage, sec. IV), the banquet scene in an arena (El Jem)
Sala XV - mosaics: Virgil and two museums.
Rooms XVII-XXII: underwater excavations in the region of Mahdia.
Room XVIII - mosaics: Horse racing (Carthage, sec. IV)
Room XXIV - Hunting with dogs (Thuburbo-Majus, sec. IV), fishermen still life (Thuburbo-Majus, sec. IV), Triumph of Venus (Thuburbo-Majus, sec. IV), statue woman wearing tunic (Cartagena ).
Room XXVII - mosaics: canopy (Carthage, sec. IV), Ulysses (Dougga, sec. IV). Neptune Trioful and Amfitriti (Utica, sec III-IV), the myth of Apollo (El Djem, sec. II) Dionysus (Dougga, sec. III), the seaside town (Carthage, sec. III).
Hall XXIX clay, glass and bronze cemeteries in Sousse and El Jem.
XXX Room - mosaics: grape growers (Dougga, sec. IV), the tragic poet (Thuburbo-Majus, sec. IV)
XXXIII Hall mosaics: the triumph of Dionysus, Dionysian themes (sec. II), the statuette: Bacchus - Bronze.

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