Raqqada National Museum of Islamic Art

The National Museum of Islamic Civilization Arts is located in a former presidential palace that was converted into a cultural and educational center in 1986 AD. It consists of 4 rooms spread over two floors and decorated with dazzling Islamic motifs. It also displays a valuable collection of holdings distributed in the money and jewelry room that contains coins that It dates back to the eras of the Aghlabids, Fatimids, Hafsids, and the Ottomans, in addition to glass pieces, glazed ceramics, and a copy of the mihrab (the niche that indicates the direction of the qiblah), in addition to the manuscript room that embraces parchment papers from the Qur’an that belong to the library of the Great Mosque in Kairouan and mentions the development of writing and decoration methods, the most important of which It is the famous blue Quran.