The Bardo Museum is one of the most famous museums in the Mediterranean countries and the second largest in Africa. He can tell all about the history of Tunisia, and it is no less than several millennia.

The original name of the Museum - Alun (in honor of one of the rulers of Tunisia), but later, after gaining state independence, the Museum was renamed in the Bardo - the name of the Bey's Palace, where he is from 1888. As the Museum's collection is constantly growing and the number of visitors increases every year, the building often repair - building out new space, reallocate the collection.

The Museum consists of several sections, each devoted to its period.

In the Bardo houses one of the best and one of the largest collections of mosaics from the Roman period. Some scenes are mosaics have no analogues in the world and therefore are considered to be unique — for example the Speech of Virgil". In the halls dedicated to this period, also many marble statues of Greek and Roman gods and goddesses Roman emperors. All these finds were discovered during excavations at Carthage in the early twentieth century. In the halls of the Museum also exhibited a collection of terracotta statues found during the excavation of the Libyan-Punic part of Carthage, and masks used by the actors theatre of antiquity. In the next section of the Museum - the Islamic hall is world famous Blue Quran and a collection of ceramics from Asia Minor ninth century.