Qualla: Museum of Libya https://qualla.com/museum-of-libya en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/m/c/7/museum-of-libya-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Museum of Libya https://qualla.com/museum-of-libya Museum of Libya: Introduction https://qualla.com/museum-of-libya/ Photo credit CC BY 2.0. Walk through a wall. Not a doorway, not an archway, but a wall of fog generated from tap water, serving as a projection screen that dissolves at your touch. This is the Museum of Libya's signature trick, and it captures something essential about the building itself: nothing here is quite what it appears to be. The structure was completed in 1939 as a royal palace. King Idris used it during his reign. After Muammar Gaddafi's 1969 revolution, it became the People's Palace. After Gaddafi's fall in 2011, it sat empty for fourteen years. In late 2025, it reopened as a museum, and Libyans lined up to walk through the fog.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/m/c/7/museum-of-libya-wp/smc7-museum-of-libya-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Museum of Libya: A Palace That Keeps Changing Names https://qualla.com/museum-of-libya/ Photo credit CC BY 2.0. The building's identity has shifted with each political upheaval in Libya. Completed in 1939 during the Italian colonial period, its original purpose was to project authority, the kind of grand structure that colonial powers built to convince themselves and their subjects that th...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/m/c/7/museum-of-libya-wp/smc7-museum-of-libya-a-palace-that-keeps-changing-names.mp3 0:06 2 full Museum of Libya: Septimius Severus Comes Home https://qualla.com/museum-of-libya/ Photo credit CC BY 2.0. Among the museum's collections, one exhibit carries particular weight. A dedicated gallery honors the Roman emperor Septimius Severus, who was born not in Rome but in the Libyan city of Leptis Magna, about 120 kilometers east of Tripoli. Severus ruled the Roman Empire from 193 to...

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