The Bardo National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography ( ar, المتحف الوطني باردو, ''El-mathaf El-ouatani Bardo'', french: Musée National de Préhistoire et d'Ethnographie du Bardo) is a
national museum
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located in
Algiers,
Algeria
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The edifice is a former
Moorish
The term Moor, derived from the ancient Mauri, is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages.
Moors are not a distinct or ...
villa.
It was opened as a museum in 1927.
Nothing specific is known about this residence, formerly in the countryside and now encompassed in the modern city. H. Klein tells us that the palace was built in the eighteenth century and that it would have been the property of Prince Omar before the French conquest. A document, in the form of a drawing signed by Captain Longuemare, specifies that it was Mustapha ben Omar who was a very rich Tunisian. In 1926, the Bardo Palace was ceded to the Domains by Mrs Frémont, sister and heiress of Pierre Joret.
See also
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List of museums in Algeria
References
External links
Bardo National Museum(Archive)
* https://web.archive.org/web/20130721142135/http://lebardo.info/
Images of Bardo National Museumin Manar al-Athar digital photo archive
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Museums in Algiers
Ethnographic museums in Africa
1927 establishments in Algeria
Moorish architecture
Museums established in 1927
Archaeological museums in Algeria