Musée National du Bardo - Alger |
The Bardo in Algiers is famous for rock paintings of chariots from Tassili N'Ajjer in the Sahara |
Model of the Bardo (Algeria), the former residence of an 18th C. exiled Tunisian prince |
Parts of the Bardo Museum complex are similar architecturally to buildings in the old Casbah |
Main courtyard of the Bardo (Algeria) |
Bardo Museum Courtyard, Algiers |
Interior - Bardo Museum, Algiers |
Interior - Bardo Museum, Algiers |
Tilework - Bardo Museum, Algiers |
Read courtyard - Bardo Museum, Algiers |
Fountain in the rear courtyard |
Door handel - Bardo Museum, Algiers |
The Algiers Bardo has been a museum since 1930 |
Bardo Museum, Algiers |
Bardo Museum, Algiers |
While it shares a name with the Bardo Museum in Tunis, there is really no comparison |
Islamic tilework, Bardo Museum, Algiers |
Islamic tilework, Bardo Museum, Algiers |
Bardo Museum of Prehistory & Ethnography |
When I visited, admission was free because most of the collection had been cleared out |
Painted ceiling, Islamic tilework, Bardo Museum, Algiers |
Courtyard, Bardo Museum, Algiers |
The courtyard of the Bardo set up to film an Algerian Ramadan sitcom |
A costumed actor for an Algerian TV sitcom |
This guy was great...he went and found his giant headdress for my photos |
They used the palatial setting of the Bardo Museum to film an Algerian period sitcom |
The show is scheduled to be broadcast on Algerian TV during Ramadan 1434 A.H. (Jul-Aug 2013) |
Algerian actors running a scene for me |
Algerian actor in period costume at the Bardo |
I'll have to visit the Bardo again when the collection is again on display |
Another Algerian actor in costume |
The rest of the cast relaxing between shoots |
Poster - L'Afrique aujourd'hui et Panon |
A short distance from the Bardo - Musée National des Antiquités, Alger |
Islamic Arts section - Musée National des Antiquités, Alger |
Islamic Arts section - Musée National des Antiquités, Alger |
Musée National des Antiquités, Alger |
Musée National des Antiquités, Alger |
Musée National des Antiquités, Alger |
Latin inscription, Musée National des Antiquités, |