Name of the place
Raqqada National Museum of Islamic Art
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.
Monday
Open 24h
Tuesday
Open 24h
Wednesday
Open 24h
Thursday
Open 24h
Friday
Open 24h
Saturday
Open 24h
Sunday
Open 24h
April 12, 2026 1:28 pm local time