Collections & Galleries
Museums
TODO — what museums in Beirut are actually worth the time.
5 placesBadaro
National Museum of Beirut
The collection survived fifteen years on the front line because the director sealed it in concrete.
Achrafieh
Sursock Museum
A Venetian-Ottoman villa given to the city as a modern art museum, wrecked by the port blast and reopened in 2023.
Hamra
American University of Beirut
A green campus falling down a hillside to the sea, with the third oldest museum in the Middle East on it.
Badaro
MIM Mineral Museum
One of the finest private mineral collections in the world, in a university basement, and almost nobody knows it is there.
Zokak el-Blat
Robert Mouawad Private Museum
A collector's palace of Islamic manuscripts, Roman glass and jewellery, in one of the last great Beiruti mansions.