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1. Crusader Castle, heritage site MUM 2. Saydat Al-Bouwebe Church 3. LAU-Louis Cardahi Foundation CARDAHI 4. Saydat Al-Najat Church 5. St. Jean Marc Church MUSE 6. Baptistry FOUNDATION 7. Ontoush 8. 9. Wax Museum 10. Ecole des Sœurs MUSEUM SEUM des Saints-Cœurs UM

Opening hours

LAU - Louis Cardahi Foundation, Mina Tuesday – Friday: 10:00 a.m. – 04:00 p.m. Ave, next to St. Jean Marc Church. Saturday and Sunday: 10:00 a.m. – 06:00 p.m. – The museum is closed on Mondays and public holidays. Contacts Access to the museum is free of charge. P.O. Box 114, Byblos, Lebanon Tel: +961 9 547 262, Ext. 3911 and 2252 Email: [email protected] [email protected]

LOUIS CARDAHI FOUNDATION ABOUT THE FOUNDATION

The Louis Cardahi Foundation was supervision of the foundation’s Governing established by the Cardahi family in Board and with the collaboration 1995 as a tribute to a man who made of the Byblos Municipality, exemplary efforts to revive his beloved the Cardahi Museum – housed in a Byblos to its past glory and bring its historic, Ottoman-style building right on significance as a World Heritage Site the bay – has been renovated and is now to international attention. open to the public.

The foundation aims to be a cultural The LAU-Louis Cardahi Foundation is center for disseminating knowledge located in the St. Jean-Marc quarter in about the and promoting research the old of Byblos (Jbeil), next to on its history. St. Jean-Marc Church.

The foundation became an LAU entity The property is divided into four main after a generous donation by the Cardahi sections: the museum, the multifunction family in 2013. Since then, under the room, the digital museum and the library.

Objects: (Total – 4,943)

г Artifacts – 48 г Paintings and pictures – 286 г , magazines and articles – 1,289 г Index cards related to books – 3,320 THE MUSEUM THE DIGITAL MUSEUM

This room contains treasures from The LAU-Louis Cardahi Foundation the private Louis Cardahi collection, houses a digital museum, a media including: tech information center and a library containing the output of the Umayyad г Phoenician artifacts, such as a Route project, which recounts the history statuette of Ishtar-Aphrodite taking of the dynasty, its expansion and her ablution prosperity, and highlights the common heritage it left across today’s . г Oil lamps and small glass vases г Lithographs by famous archaeologist The museum was inaugurated with the Ernest Renan financial support of the Byblos Municipality through European Neighborhood г Reproduction of the Louvre Museum’s Program Initiative-Cross Border bust of Odoskon, stone of Yehawmilk, Collaboration in the Mediterranean and basalt lion of the Persian fortress (ENPI-CBC Med).

The project involves 14 partners from Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, , Portugal, and Italy. Partners in Lebanon include the Lebanese American University, Byblos Municipality, the Safadi Foundation and the ministries of Culture and Tourism.

The Digital Museum hosts state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for its exhibits on the cultural itineraries of the Umayyad partner countries, the Phoenician Route and the War Free World Heritage Listed project.

Guests can also watch the short film Byblos, la cité millénaire (Byblos, Millennium City). THE LIBRARY CURRENT PROJECTS

The LAU-Louis Cardahi Foundation will cooperate with institutions, universities and research centers in Lebanon and abroad to disseminate knowledge about the history of the country and the city of Byblos in particular. The foundation’s library holds approximately 1,500 specialized volumes The foundation will develop the museum’s dedicated mostly to the historic and collection and hold periodic exhibitions, in cultural life of Byblos and its environs. collaboration with various institutions. Print periodicals are supplemented by subscriptions to various online The foundation is currently engaged in three major databases of books, journals, magazines, projects funded by brochures and CDs. the European Union:

г The Phoenician Route г The Umayyad Route г The War Free Heritage Listed Cities THE MULTIFUNCTION ROOM

NATIONAL AFFILIATIONS Lebanese Ministry of Culture The multifunction room is where activities, The multifunction room also hosts Lebanese Ministry of Tourism events and exhibitions take place at the reproductions of 75 antique postal cards Lebanese Tourism Guides Syndicate foundation. In this space, visitors can find featuring Byblos from the collection of Municipality of Anfeh paintings, sculptures and calligraphy by Mr. Fouad Debbas, photos of Lebanese Municipality of Anjar contemporary Lebanese artists who have sites such as the Jaje cedars, the Haqel Municipality of been inspired by Byblos, in addition to fossils, Valley, and more. Municipality of collections of photographs, map albums Municipality of and slides of the city. Municipality of Jbeil Municipality of Jounieh Municipality of Municipality of Municipality of Tyre Safadi Foundation INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATIONS Legado Andalusí/ Fundación Pública Andaluza The Phoenicians’ Route International Confederation The “Phoenicians’ Route” Scientific Committee World Association for the Protection of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage, (WATCH) THE PHOENICIANS’ ROUTE THE UMAYYAD ROUTE

SUMMARY HERITAGE SUMMARY Certified a Cultural Route of the Council The Phoenician Route passed through all The Umayyad Route is a European of in 2003, the Phoenician the territories lining the Mediterranean, Neighborhood Program Initiative-Cross Route refers to the system of major including those in Europe, North Africa Border Collaboration in the Mediterranean ports used by the Phoenicians around and the Middle East, creating everlasting (ENPI-CBC Med) project aimed at the 12th century BC, which was an historical bonds among their peoples. promoting sustainable tourism based essential network for trade and cultural These connections are identifiable today on an itinerary between seven modern PROJECT SCOPE communication in the Mediterranean. through shared archaeological, ethnic, countries that were part of the territory Through these routes, the Phoenicians anthropological, cultural and natural sites controlled by the first Islamic dynasty, This project includes: – some of history’s greatest sailors and throughout the modern countries along the Umayyads. – contributed to the creation the sea. 1. Management and coordination of a “koiné,” a regional cultural community The project involves 14 partners from 2. Analysis of the cultural heritage that produced a robust exchange of Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, Egypt, and local economic situation within manufactured goods, people and ideas. Portugal, Spain and Italy. the tourism sector in each partner The partners in Lebanon are the country Lebanese American University (LAU), 3. Identification and exchange of PROJECT SCOPE Byblos Municipality and the Safadi good practices between European Foundation in collaboration with Union Mediterranean countries The LAU-Louis Cardahi Foundation, the ministries of Culture and Tourism. and other Mediterranean partner in its capacity as an active member countries of the scientific committee within the Confederation of the Council of 4. Joint design and development of Europe, will sustain the development project strategy, highlighting four of the project network in Lebanon to basic actions: encompass the following research a. Promotion of sustainable categories: tourism through cultural heritage b. Diversification of the supply of tourism services г Archeology and history c. Strengthening of tourist infrastructure г Tourism sciences and local development d. Application of best practices г Education and pedagogy and the implementation of a cross-border network through г Cultural management, culture economy, the pilot action to launch the cultural policies and cultural management Umayyad cultural itinerary г Communication and sustainable development 5. Communication and dissemination http://lcf.lau.edu.lb/activities/projects/phoenician-route.php http://lcf.lau.edu.lb/activities/projects/umayyad-route.php WAR FREE WORLD HERITAGE LISTED CITIES

The War Free World Heritage Listed Cities is a project within the framework of the EU Cooperation in Urban Development and Dialogue (ENPI CIUDAD) project. PROJECT SCOPE It is a partnership between the Council of the United Municipalities of Byblos Specific tasks related to the War (Lebanon) coordinated by Dr. Rachid Free World Heritage Listed Cities Chamoun, director of the LAU-Louis project include: Cardahi Foundation, and the Municipality of Mtskheta (Georgia), in collaboration with г Establishing good practices for the World Association for the Protection of urban and site management Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage in cities threatened by armed in times of armed conflicts (WATCH), and conflicts relevant ministries in both Lebanon and г Promoting widespread Georgia. awareness of the risks facing World Heritage cities that are The proposal for this project, made in threatened by conflict 2009, stemmed from two opportunities, suggesting improved models of г Preparing Byblos’ and governance for world heritage sites Mtskheta’s candidacy located in historic core urban centers. First, applications for enhanced the EU launched a call for proposals within protection from UNESCO the ENPI CIUDAD program allowing local authorities to participate in the administration of territories, based on their closer ties with residents and their proximity to the problems faced on the ground. Second, UNESCO circulated the first publication of Guidelines For The Implementation Of The 1999 Second Protocol To The Hague Convention For The Protection Of Cultural Property In The Event Of Armed Conflict (1999 HP).

http://lcf.lau.edu.lb/activities/projects/war-free-cities.php