MUSEUM

Located at the rear of a military building, it contains the personal affairs of Imam Ahmed. The museum was opened to show Yéménites the difference in living standards between the imam and the small people, to convince them of the benefits of the Republic. The first room shows the photos of the perpetrators of the last attack on the imam, as well as other revolutionaries. The imam received eight revolver bullets in his back. One of them, housed in his spinal column, could not be extracted and made it terribly suffer. His doctors regularly injected morphine from morphine to calm the pain. Imam Ahmed died eight months later. Other rooms, on three floors, have their furniture (including seesaws beds that reduced the pain of their wounds) and gifts from different heads of state. The audiovisual material it used is also presented. Ahmed banned the use of the people because republican propaganda was on the radio and, on the other, because images from the outside world could reveal the late Yemen's delay in the 1960 s. A piece exhibits the many French scents and the waters of the Imam of Cologne. On the upper floors you can see his apparat, the toys and clothes of his heir, Al-Badr, as well as kitchen equipment. All these objects give the foreign visitor a modest impression of the imam's wealth: The life of the powerful autocrat of Imam Ahmed was not so luxurious, although it was a thousand times more comfortable than that of the people of the country.