221: Bardo Museum, Tunisia from the 1000 places to see before you die book

The national museum, it contains a wealth of mosaics that undoubtedly are the best Ive seen in the world in one collection, and Ive seen a lot!

A sprawling, albeit poorly set out museum as it combines a former royal palace with other buildings in order to hold the wares, it has kilometres of mosaics that our guide had no qualms about walking us over in our hiking boots. Mon Dieu!!  I went back to the front where there were some “footies” but insufficient for the entire group. So, onwards we went, stepping on lampooned fish, women’s breasts, men’s genitalia and children’s heads. 

No different I guess to what happened at Carthage, where the bulk of the mosaics came from.

Largely from floors, the mosaics now adorn walls as well

The intricate details up close

A bath for christening children- glorious

This museum is a big tick in the 1000 places to see before you die book. The only complaint...they should have left some more in the Carthage museum which is where they largely all came from...as there is only one in that museum and the cat was sitting in it.