For the time being, visitors to the Bardo Museum can only see a meager third of the collections available. Moreover, the management of the museum has revised down the prices while the places are experiencing great activity.
Indeed, work is in full swing at the Bardo and the official opening of the “new” museum is scheduled for the month of October 2012.
Beyond the necessary renovation, the challenge of this work is to transform what was first a colonial museum into a real national museum.
In this sense, Tahar Ghalia, director of the museum stresses that in the future, the objective is to ensure that 40% of visitors are Tunisians who, for the moment, represent only 10% of the crowds.
The new Bardo museum will also benefit from a monumental entrance. This new access to the museum is currently being finished and will be placed under the sign of Neptune.
Indeed, an immense mosaic placed vertically will welcome visitors. It is probably the largest Tunisian mosaic.
Entitled “The triumph of Neptune”, this second century mosaic was discovered in 1888 in Sousse. It weighs 14 tonnes, with a length of 12.72 m and a width of 9.64 m.
It is currently up to a vertical plan after being broken down into 56 panels and 18 fragments. It will be placed in the new museum entrance hall.
