Dar Ben Abdallah Museum

A must-stop sightseeing in Medina in Tunis, Dar Ben Abdallah Museum is a palace that belonged to one of the medina's prominent wealthy officers. The palace is located in the heart of the medina (old city). Built in 1796, the building encloses a number of elegant rooms, four of which manifest the luxurious life of the 18th-century bourgeois classes as well as the masters' house and the guests' house (containing the museum administration). The mansion later acquired a more fashionable Italianate style of 19th-century. The building was transformed by the Directorate of Public Instruction and Fine Arts into the Bureau of Tunisian Arts. In 1964, it was chosen by the State Secretariat for Cultural Affairs (Directorate of National Museums) to house the Center for Traditional Arts and Customs. In...Read More