The Dar Essid Museum is an
art museum
An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the display of art, usually from the museum's own Collection (artwork), collection. It might be in public or private ownership and may be accessible to all or have restrictions in place. A ...
located in a palace in the
medina
Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the Holiest sites in Islam, second-holiest city in Islam, ...
of
Sousse
Sousse or Soussa ( ar, سوسة, ; Berber:''Susa'') is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf ...
,
Tunisia
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. The edifice belonged to a family of aristocrats.
The museum retraces the daily city life in Sousse in the 18th and 19th centuries.
[Giovanna Magi et Patrizia Fabbri, ''Art and History: Tunisia'', éd. Casa Editrice Bonechi, Florence, 2008, p. 39]
See also
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Dar Jellouli Museum
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Nabeul Museum
Nabeul Museum (Arabic: متحف نابل) is an archaeological museum located in Nabeul, Tunisia. It was established in 1984.
The museum was established to collect some of the objects found during excavations that took place at various sites of C ...
References
Museums in Tunisia
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