National Museum of Lebanon

This evening we visited the National Museum of Beirut  this is the principal museum of archeology in Lebanon. The collection was begun after World War I, and the museum was officially opened in 1942. The museum has collections totalling about 100,000 objects.

What was also very interesting was listening to the stories of how during the 1975 Lebanese civil war, the museum stood on the front line that separated the warring factions, but most of the artifacts were saved by last-minute pre-emptive measures.