At the two levels of this museum (350m2), we can stop in front of thirty five boards and twenty two windows showing different tools: a pick, flints, a stylet, and even an ax, not to mention the tools related to agriculture with a millstone as well as human fossils. Visitors can also watch a short quarter of an hour documentary: entitled Lebanon in Prehistory (Le Liban dans la Préhistoire). It is presented in French and Arabic.
The origins of this museum, we can see the equipment accumulated by scientists of “The Company of Jesus” (la Compagnie de Jésus) that dominated the prehistoric research world until the sixties. These men entrusted the “Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines” of Saint Joseph University with the heritage they accumulated. The latter has given birth to a project that resulted in the establishment of a research center since 1988, then in the creation of the Prehistory Museum in 2000.
Opening Hours
