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HISTORY. The AUB Museum, founded in 1868, is the third oldest Museum in the Near East. Begun with a donation from General Cesnola, the American Consul in Cyprus, the collection has since then grown steadily. Today the Museum exhibits a wide range of artifacts from Lebanon and neighbouring countries tracing man's progress in the Near East from the Early Stone Age to the Islamic period. [more]

ORGANIZATION. The Museum is divided into two galleries: the first contains material belonging to the Stone Age (500.000-3000 B.C.) and the Bronze Age (3000 B.C.-1 200 B.C.), while exhibits in the second gallery are from the Iron Age (1200-330 B.C.), the Hellenistic period (330-64 B.C.), the Roman Period (64 B.C.-5th c. A.D.), the Byzantine Period (5th-7th c. A.D.), and the Islamic Period (7th - 13th c. A.D.). [more]

COLLECTIONS. The Museum's wealth comes from the variety of categories its objects belong to. Besides the collection of pottery (the largest category), the following are represented: Prehistoric flint tools, bronze figurines, tools and weapons, gold jewelry, Phoenician and classical sculptures and bas-reliefs, Egyptian alabaster vases from Byblos, cippe from Tyre, lead deity figurines from Baalbeck, precious and semi-precious stones intaglios, decorative bone items, hair pins and musical instruments. [more]

OPENING HOURS. The AUB Museum is open from Monday to Friday, 10am - 4pm, and closed during official and AUB holidays. [more]