Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Musée National de Préhistoire et d'Ethnographie du Bardo

    • Postal Address:

      03, rue Franklin Roosevelt, Telemly
      16000 Alger
      Algeria

    • Telephone:

      213-2-74-76-41

    • Facsimile:

      213-2-74-24-53

    • Director:

      Madame BOUKLI Aïcha Née MERABET

    • Year founded:

      1930

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Museum

    • Types of source material:

      Artifacts

    • Size:

      The collections bring together approximately 15,500 ethnographic, prehistoric, protohistoric, and African art pieces.

    • Holdings:

      The ethnographic collection: musical instruments, weapons and harnesses, jewelry, clothing, shoes, boxes, weaving, embroiderie, fabric, cult objects, body treatments and decoration, wooden furniture, glass, pottery, Algerian and African basket-making, painting, porcelain, brasswork, leather, popular medicine, agriculture, lamps. Ethnographic collection de Libya, Tunisia, Morocco: religious paintings. Prehistoric collection: lower, middle and upper Paleolithic (Algeria, Tunisia, Europe); Neolithic (Algeria, elsewhere); protohistoric: Tin Hinan (queen of the Tuaregs), prehistoric art, American Indian collection, shells, fossils, marine fossils (Tunisia, Morocco, Europe). African Collection: ethnographic.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      French

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      entrance fee

    • Finding tools:

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications: