Overview

The Kheireddine Palace was restored and turned into a museum in 1999. It doesn't have any permanent exhibits but instead hosts temporary displays of painting, photography and sculpture by various contemporary national and international artists. The building, facing a square with century-old trees, is quite interesting in itself. It was built in the 1860s to become the palace of an Ottoman reformer ministry. At that time, it was a mix of Ottoman and Italian architecture. But this huge building has changed and undergone varying destinies since that time, becoming a tribunal before being split between a Jewish school and a Muslim school and finally partially used by the Tunis District administration. The entrance is free. N.L.