Dar Jellouli Museum
Dar Jellouli Museum, also known as the Regional Museum of Arts and Folk Traditions, is an art museum located in Tunisia. It was founded in 1939 by the French scholar on Maghrebi art Lucien Golvin, in a palace located in the heart of the ancient city of Sfax.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Sfax, Tunisia
- Address: صفاقس
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Great Mosque and Bab Diwan.
Great Mosque
Mosque
Photo: IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Great Mosque of Sfax was the most important mosque in the old city of Sfax, Tunisia. It was initially built towards the mid-9th century under the rule of the Aghlabid dynasty. Great Mosque is situated 180 metres southwest of Dar Jellouli Museum.
Bab Diwan
Photo: Archimouda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bab Diwan or Bab Bhar is one of the gates of the medina of Sfax. It is located in the southern facade of the old city between Bab Kasbah on the western corner and Bab Borj Ennar on the east. Bab Diwan is situated 230 metres south of Dar Jellouli Museum.
Bab El Kasbah
City gate
Photo: Archimouda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bab El Kasbah is one of the gates of the Medina of Sfax, located in the west of its walls southern facade and gives access to its kasbah. Bab El Kasbah is situated 470 metres southwest of Dar Jellouli Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sfax and Sakiet Eddaïer.
Sfax
Photo: Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sfax is on the east coast of Tunisia, approximately midway on the highway between Tunis and the border with Libya.
Sakiet Eddaïer
Town
Sakiet Eddaïer is a town and commune in the Sfax Governorate, Tunisia. As of 2004 it had a population of 40,717. It is located at the entrance of National Road 1 as it enters the Sfax metropolitan area. Sakiet Eddaïer is situated 6 km north of Dar Jellouli Museum.
Sakiet Ezzit
Town
Sakiet Ezzit is a town and commune in the Sfax Governorate, Tunisia. Attached administratively to the governorate of Sfax, it is the center of a delegation counting 72 481 inhabitants in 2006 and is a municipality with 44,886 inhabitants in 2004.2 The city itself has a population of 12 613 inhabitants. Sakiet Ezzit is situated 7 km north of Dar Jellouli Museum.
Dar Jellouli Museum
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: La Medina, Sfax Ville, Sfax Governorate, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
34.73685° or 34° 44′ 13″ northLongitude
10.76239° or 10° 45′ 45″ eastOpen location code
8F6GPQP6+PXOpenStreetMap ID
way 39972294OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q3329124
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to French—“Dar Jellouli Museum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المتحف الجهوي للفنون والتقاليد الشعبية”
- Arabic: “دار الجلولي”
- Arabic: “متحف دار الجلولي”
- French: “Musée Dar Jallouli”
- French: “musée Dar Jellouli”
- French: “Musée Dar Jellouli”
- French: “musée des arts et traditions populaires de Sfax”
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Highlights include Mosque and حديقة وهران.
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