Dar Ben Abdallah

The Dar Ben Abdallah Museum is an old palace in the city of Tunis, located in the southern district of Tunis, near Torbet El Bey. The palace was built during the eighteenth century by a nobleman, Mohamed ElBaradei El Contini, who later sold it to Suleiman Kahia, a general in the Tunisian army, but he got his current name from his last owner, the wealthy silk merchant Mohamed Taher Ben Abdullah. In 1964, the Tunisian Arts Office bought the house and made it the Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions of Tunis. In 1978, the palace turned into a museum showing the daily life of the Tunisian nobility of the city of Tunis in the nineteenth and twentieth century and is divided into two parts: one for family life and traditions and the other for the public life of the city and its institutions (markets, mosques, cafés).