Nourdine K

Located on a hill overlooking the sea between the shrine of the martyrs “MAQAM ECHAHID” and the Test Garden of Hamma. Erected from 1927, Architect: Paul Guion
Built area: + 4000m2, without the gardens
3 levels:
- Ground floor, main entrance to the museum with descriptive panels of the museum. It is better to enter through there
- 1ST: Gallery of Bronzes
- 2nd: permanent historical collection, the library and the Cabinet of Prints, + hanging gardens
* A panoramic terrace, a reading room, a cafeteria (closed), and educational workshops
* Tickets: 200dzd visit AND 200dzd photograph
His collection: the most important for art in Africa. Includes 8k works (Print room; Furniture; Ceramics; Sculptures; Works of art; Paintings; Graphic arts)

Interesting

Historical
Open only Tuesdays

An Ottoman Palace (home, residence).
-Built in 1570 by Yahya Rais, an Algerian naval officer, on a site called Souk El Jamea in the lower Casbah, on the ruins of the Zawiya “corner” and the mausoleum.
-Bought in 1792 by Hassan Al-Khaznaji, Minister of Finance of the Bey Muhammad bin Othman, then gave it to his daughter Khadwaj.
-Sold to a Jewish merchant “Jacob al-Bakri”, and therefore one of the names of this house in the Kasbah is the name of Dar al-Bakri.
-The seat of the first French municipality in the Algerian capital in 1830.
-Napoleon III resided there from 1860, every time he came to Algeria.
-Since 1987, National Museum of Popular Arts And Traditions. In addition to the architecture itself, the museum contain Rural and traditional Algerian artisanship.

*Khadija/Khadwaj Al-Amiya “the blind”, sister of Aziza, A legend.

The Ottoman Empire was in most Islamic countries, Turkey is rich in Islamic monuments.
Nice small museum.
Opens at 10 am.
تركيا غنية بالآثار الإسلامية.
متحف صغير و جميل.
يفتح على 10 ص.