Museums in Algeria

The museum in Algeria are located throughout the country. Most popular museum is Bardo museum, and the national museum of Antiquities in Algiers.

Algiers
National Museum of Antiquities – classical and Muslim antiquities, and Muslim art:
The ancient collection is very rich and includes collections of mosaics, sculptures, Libyan and Latin inscriptions, coins and medals, bronze, ivory, bone, ceramics and wooden objects. It is the oldest museum in Algeria and Africa. The collection was set up in 1835, five years after the French occupation. Since 1897 there are two divisions of the museum’s collection, Antiquity and Islamic, have continued to grow. This collection makes it possible to exhibit the history of Algeria from its Libyan-Punic era through to the 20th century. The objects are displayed in two separate buildings: one houses the pre-Islamic collection whilst the other houses the collection of Islamic art.

Bardo National Museum – ethnography, prehistory, and African collections:
The richness of Algeria’s heritage is brought home in this museum. The collection of antiquities is drawn from sites around the city and throughout Algeria. Among the early works are fine ivory carvings and large, totemic Libyan-period warriors on horseback. There is sculpture from Cherchell and mosaics from Tipaza, a room of bronzes including a wonderful fragment of a horse’s leg and hoof, and an extraordinary 3rd-century figure of a chubby child holding an eagle to its chest.

National Museum of Fine Arts – modern art, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and engravings.
Mujahidin Museum – collections referring to the National Liberation War.
Children’s Museum – works by children.
Museum of Traditional Arts – handicrafts collections; traditional art.
Army Museum – collections referring to the National War of Liberatio.

Djemila
Djemila Museum – sculptures, classic mosaics

Tipaza
Tipaza Museum – antique sculpture and archeology.
Cherchell – Bocquet Park: open Air Museum and New Museum, Antique mics
Timgad
Timgad Museum – classic antiquities, sculptures, mosaics, and collections
Annaba, Hippone Road:
Hippone Museum – classic antiquities, sculptures
Tebessa
Minerva Temple Museum
Setif
Setif Museum – classic antiquities, ethnography
Cherchell
Cherchell Museum – archeology, Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities


Constantine
Constantine Museum, Koudiat Plateau – prehistory, antiquities, paintings
Tazoult formerly Lambese
Tazoult Museum – classic antiquities
Oran
National Zabana Museum – prehistory, Antiquities, Modern Art, Ethnography.
Natural Sciences.
Guelma
Guelma Theater Museum – sculptures and Numismatics
Ouargla
Ouargla Saharan Museum – prehistory, Ethnography, Arts/Crafts
Tlemcen
Tlemcen Museum – Antiquities, Muslim Arts
Beni-Abbès
Beni-Abbès Scientific Research Center – Botanical and Zoological Park
El-Oued
El-Oued Museum – Prehistory, Ethnography and Craft Work
Bejaia
Bejaia Museum – Archeology, Natural Sciences
Ghardaïa
Ghardaïa Folk Museum – Art Craft, Folk Collections
Algiers-Hamma
Test Garden (Flora), Zoological Park (Fauna)
Beni-Saf
Botanical and Zoological Park – Flora and Fauna
Bou Ismail
Aquarium – Marine Wildlife
BouSaada
Boussaâda Ecomuseum
Djanet
Prehistory and History Museum