NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FOLK ARTS AND TRADITIONS
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Palace converted into a museum with a fine collection of carpets, pottery, ceramics, brassware, jewelry..
Built on the site of an old zaouïa around 1570 by Yahia Raïs, an officer in the Algerian fleet, this palace is also known as Dar Bacri. The house was for some years the residence of Michel Cohen Bacri, a rich wheat trader known for his involvement in the dispute over the debt owed by France to Algeria, which was the cause of the "fan attack", a pretext for the capture of Algiers by the French.
The palace was bought in 1789 by Hassan El Khaznadji, who was then minister of finance of the dey Mohamed Ben Othman (1766-1791). The minister, future dey Hassan Pacha, restored and enlarged it to offer it to his daughter Khadaoudj who would have become blind from admiring her beauty in the mirror. The grandchildren of the dey Hassan Pacha inherited the palace before the French requisitioned it in 1830 to house the first city hall of Algiers and later the Hotel of the Attorney General and the Hotel of the first president of the Court of Appeal. The palace then underwent numerous transformations.
In 1947, the house was assigned to the technical service of the Algerian handicraft and then became the Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions in 1987.
The museum gathers a beautiful collection of carpets, potteries, ceramics, pieces of brassware, as well as Berber jewelry ... The exhibition is interesting and it is an opportunity to discover a typical house of the Casbah. One of the rooms upstairs is decorated with beautiful Delft tiles.
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