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Beirut Museums and Galleries Walk

Beirut Museums and Galleries Walk

Beirut · Lebanon

4 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Beirut with museums and galleries as your focus, beginning at متحف سرسق and continuing to متحف ميم and المتحف الوطني. Along the way, pause at كاتدرائية القديس جاورجيوس للروم الأرثوذكس for its architectural setting and cultural context between the museum stops. You will see different kinds of collections and displays, making the walk worthwhile for comparing how art, heritage and knowledge are presented. Follow the stops in order for a focused introduction to Beirut through its museums and galleries.

The walk

  1. Sursock Museum

    Sursock Museum

    A 1912 palace turned museum by Nicolas Sursock’s remarkable bequest to Beirut.

  2. Saint George Orthodox Cathedral

    Saint George Orthodox Cathedral

    A cathedral rebuilt through earthquakes, civil war, archaeology, and three centuries of change.

  3. Mim Museum

    Mim Museum

    Mim Museum, a museum in Beirut, Lebanon.

  4. National Museum

    National Museum

    A national museum rebuilt around a collection that survived Beirut’s civil war

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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