Ghadames Museum

The Ghadames Museum is an archaeological museum located in Ghadames, Libya.[1]

Ghadames Museum

Location	Ghadames, Libya
Type	archaeological museum
Collection size	Berber items, Roman era art

Data

With its multiple wings, the museum specializes in Berber history and area wildlife.[1] It includes archaeological remains from Ghadames dating to the Roman period, when it was named Cydamus. There are some column bases of a Roman temple in a section of the Museum.

Columns of the Christian church of Cydamus still remain in the "Sīdī Badrī" Mosque (the oldest in Libya):[2] one is expected to be moved inside the Ghadames Museum.

The museum is one of the most visited places in the city by the tourists.

See also

• Cydamus
• Capitoline Temple
• List of museums in Libya
• Treasury of Cyrene

References

1. "Ghadames Museum". Temehu Tourism Services. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
2. Cydamus roman remains

Bibliography

• Edmond Bernet (1912). "Ghadames". En Tripolitaine: Voyage a Ghadames (in French). Paris: Fontemoing.
• Lafi (Nora) "Ghadamès cité-oasis entre empire ottoman et colonisation"" in Federico Cresti (ed.), La Libia tra Mediterraneo e mondo islamico, Giuffrè, pp. 55–70, 2006