Kheireddine Palace - Town Museum Tunis

Hayreddin Palace is an old palace in the Medina of Tunis. It is the current Museum of Tunis.

A beautiful palace, a place of history and quality exhibitions

the museum is a part of the khereddine palace since this monument was divided in two and the second part had become at the beginning of the last century the israelite school and was in fact located in the heart of the hara which is the jewish quartet of tunis. today this district has disappeared and the school is squatted by dozens of families. opposite the palace the stable was sold to a rich silk merchant and inherited by a great grandson who turned it into a party space.

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This building was built between 1860 and 1870 by order of the reformed minister Khair El Din Pasha, and it is a palace that combines traditional style with European renewal (it has a wide façade that opens to the road and an interior decoration of Italian style with gilded carvings Today, nothing remains of that architectural masterpiece except a part of the façade and decoration of the salon with its fireplace made of solid iron, because with the erection of the French protection and the departure of the minister, the palace was divided and sold in 1881, and then many private owners divided the annexes and the palace itself after it was completed. Its use for a period as the seat of the court Then it was split up and sold to different owners in 1905. Then the part that was designated for the court headquarters located on the tribunal street, called Qasr al-Hafsiyya, was demolished between 1910 and 1920, to be replaced by a school that occupied its area and the rest of the adjacent areas, all of which had been owned by the Jewish community since 1908. The other part, which opens onto the square called the Old Court, has been assigned to an Islamic school In 1961, this part of the palace became public property, which had suffered from neglect for a long time, with the exception of a wing that was designated as a functional residence for the principal of an elementary school. In 1972, this wing became the seat of administrative departments, following the restoration work carried out by the municipality of Tunis In general, the building in its two parts: the part that is being exploited (the part of the municipality) or the deserted part (which was an Israeli school) was waiting for a project to restore life to it and make it a pole of attraction and entertainment in the city.