NATIONAL MILITARY MUSEUM - ROSE PALACE

The National Military Museum is located in the Rose Palace, built in 1793 under Bey Hamouda Pasha, in the western suburbs of the city of Tunis. This palace is located near the royal gardens of the Hafsid era (1420). This era is over, the palace is no longer surrounded by the vast gardens where orange and fruit trees slumber. It has been open to the public since 1989. It presents different periods of the military history of the country, namely the ancient times, the Arab-Islamic conquest, the time of the Hafsids, then the Ottoman governors, as well as the periods of the Mouradite and Husseinite dynasties. The period of armed resistance, from the French occupation in 1881 until independence, is also covered. Among the collection: thirteen thousand weapons of the XIXth used by the Tunisian soldiers in 1854 during the Crimean war against the Russians. Indeed, the latter had taken part in the conflict in support of the Ottoman Empire, the French, the English and the Kingdom of Sardinia. For the anecdote, the admiral of the French fleet Lessègue stayed in the palace in 1802 as an extraordinary ambassador of General Napoleon Bonaparte, first consul of France at the time. The various collections of historical objects are distributed and exhibited in the successive rooms of the palace according to the chronological order of the stages of the history of Tunisia which extends over three millennia. A very beautiful museum to discover!