The Bardo Museum

We took a fieldtrip to the Bardo Museum in Tunis, the national museum of Tunisia.  Inside one can find the majority of the best Roman mosaics anywhere in the world.  There are also many other amazing things to be seen.  Originally, the museum was one of the Bey of Tunis’s palaces.  The Bey of Tunis was the Head of State of Tunisia during the French Protectorate period.  Now days, the palace houses the Bardo Museum and the Tunisian National Parliament.

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Jeff and Joey take a break in one of the multitude of massive rooms filled with mosaics. It’s overwhelming the first time a person visits the museum.

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A drunken, naked Hercules statue cast out of bronze. It’s the only one like it in the world.

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Former Roman “heads” of state. They all were emperors once. Now they’re in a museum in Tunis.

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