Bardo Mosaic Museum – Most amazing mosaics we’ve ever seen

The next day we headed to the Bardo Mosaic Museum. We went by taxi (LRT is possible, but it wasn’t worth it,

Bardo Museum
Bardo Museum


since the taxi is only $3 and much faster). The Bardo is the premier museum for mosaics in the world. It’s a huge museum (3 floors) and every available square inch is occupied by a Roman mosaic. The building itself is quite a sight too – it occupies the former Bardo Palace. We spent about 2 hours here before we were all ‘mosaiced’ out. There’s a little souvenir shop that sells mosaic reproductions, but the prices were about triple what we had seen further south in the medinas (of course, maybe these aren’t made by children…).

Leave a Reply

captcha *