www.nabumuseum.com
El-Heri, Batroun
info@nabumuseum.com
(06)541.341/941
Open
Wed-Sun: 9am-6pm
Closed on Monday and Tuesday
The museum
“NABU”, is named after the Mesopotamian patron god of scribes, literacy and wisdom, an important symbol of regions cultural heritage and history. The initial idea was to create a research and training center with the goal of preserving the re rich heritage and encouraging academic research.
Through a unique program committed to interactive learning, NABU aims to provide an environment in which the public can explore the past, understand the present and play a role in shaping the future. Through art the artistic, social, and political scene will be enriched with different points of views enabling a journey back and forth between local and global perspectives, in search of diagnoses and solutions in the same way NABU vision moves back and forth between near and far.
The museum offers an exceptional permanent collection of Bronze and Iron Age artifacts representing Roman, Greek, Byzantine, Phoenician and Mesopotamian, and contemporary Lebanese cultures, in addition to rare manuscripts and ethnographic material. The museum’s collections also include examples of local, regional, modern and contemporary art by Lebanese artists such as Shafic Abboud, Amin al-Bacha, Helen Khal, Dia Azzawi, Shakir al – Said, Omar Onsi, Mustapha Farroukh, Ismail Fattah, Adam Henein, Khalil Gibran, Paul Guiragossian and Mahmoud Obaidi along with a unique collection of works by Saliba Douaihy.