The Bardo Museum is probably the only reason to come to Tunis if you are on vacation. Its home to parliment and its very residential. The only reason I dont encourage you to come to explore is due to the traffic. Bardo is bustling and busy. Shops, every kind of doctor and specialist, schools, private and public, restaurants. You name it, its here. So if you would like to explore a local area, close to the airport (10 min) where locals live and its very safe (Tunisia is very safe) but in Bardo you are amongst doctors, schools, shopping and you can get a sense for the true Tunisian life. Most Tunisians speak english so you wont be lost or without someone to talk with.

If you do come to Bardo I would recommend you try the new Hamam and Spa. The owners spent a year and a half pouring their hearts into every detail, so you get to experience a traditional experience in a luxury setting. (My kind of style.)

The Bardo Museum is one of the most important museums in the Mediterrnean. and the second museum of the African continent after the Egyptian Museum of Cairo by richness of its collections.[1] It traces the history of Tunisia over several millennia and across several civilizations through a wide variety of archaeological pieces.

Housed in an old beylical palace since 1888, it has been the setting for the exhibition of many major works discovered since the beginning of archaeological research in the country. Originally called Alaoui Museum (Arabic: المتحف العلوي‎, romanized: al-Matḥaf al-ʿAlawī), named after the reigning bey at the time, it takes its current name of Bardo Museum after the independence of the country even if the denomination is attested before that date.

The museum houses one of the largest collections of Roman mosaics in the world, thanks to excavations at the beginning of 20th century in various archaeological sites in the country including Carthage, Hadrumetum, Dougga and Utica. Generally, the mosaics of Bardo, such as the Virgil Mosaic, represent a unique source for research on everyday life in Roman Africa. From the Roman era, the museum also contains a rich collection of marble statues representing the deities and the Roman emperors found on different sites including those of Carthage and Thuburbo Majus.

The museum also houses pieces discovered during the excavations of Libyco-Punic sites including Carthage, although the National Museum of Carthage is the primary museum of the Carthage archaeological site. The essential pieces of this department are grimacing masks, terracotta statues and stelae of major interest for Semitic epigraphy, and the stele of the priest and the child. The museum also houses Greek works discovered especially in the excavations of the shipwreck of Mahdia, whose emblematic piece remains the bust of Aphrodite in marble,[not verified in body] gnawed by the sea.

The Islamic Department contains, in addition to famous works such as the Blue Qur'an of Kairouan, a collection of ceramics from the Maghreb and Anatolia.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo_National_Museum_(Tunis))