National Museum
Abdallah El Yafi St., Beirut, Lebanon
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The National Museum is the main historical and archaeological museum of Lebanon, which has one of the most extensive collections of antiquities in the entire Middle East. There are about 100 thousand ancient finds and other antique objects, 1300 of them can be seen at the permanent exhibition.
The National Museum was opened in 1942 and is located on one of the main streets of the capital of Lebanon – Abdullah al-Yafi, in the southeast of Beirut. The Egyptian-style museum was designed in France by architects Pierre Leprince-Ringe and Antoine Nachas. The total exhibition area of the museum is 6,000 square meters.
It has several departments: prehistory, the Bronze and Iron Ages, the Hellenistic, Romanesque and Byzantine periods, as well as the Arab conquest and the Mamluk period. The most notable in the museum is the Phoenician exhibition, which presents beautiful ceramic and metal objects, as well as products made of precious stones and ivory.