Ghadames Museum Explained

Ghadames Museum
Location:	Ghadames, Libya
Type:	archaeological museum
Collection:	Berber items, Roman era art

The Ghadames Museum is an archaeological museum located in Ghadames, Libya.^[1]

Data

With its multiple wings, the museum specializes in Berber history and area wildlife.^[1] It includes archaeological remains from Ghadames dating to the Roman period, when it was named Cydamus. There are some column bases of a Roman temple in a section of the Museum.

Columns of the Christian church of Cydamus still remain in the "Sīdī Badrī" Mosque (the oldest in Libya):^[2] one is expected to be moved inside the Ghadames Museum.

The museum is one of the most visited places in the city by the tourists.

See also

• Cydamus
• Capitoline Temple
• List of museums in Libya
• Treasury of Cyrene

Bibliography

• Book: En Tripolitaine: Voyage a Ghadames . https://archive.org/stream/rsentripolitaine00bernuoft#page/128/mode/2up . Ghadames . Fontemoing . Paris . Edmond Bernet . 1912 . fr .
• Lafi (Nora) "Ghadamès cité-oasis entre empire ottoman et colonisation"" in Federico Cresti (ed.), La Libia tra Mediterraneo e mondo islamico, Giuffrè, pp. 55–70, 2006

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ghadames Museum . Temehu Tourism Services . 8 February 2013.
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=jxBqDwAAQBAJ&dq=cydamus+roman+remains&pg=PT25 Cydamus roman remains