The Dar Ben Abdallah Museum is an old palace in Tunis located in the southern district of Tunis near Torbet El Bey. The palace was built during the eighteenth century by a nobleman, Mohamed El-Baradei Al-Kuntini, who later sold it to Suleiman Kahia, a general in the Tunisian army, but he got its current name from its last owner, the wealthy silk merchant Mohamed Taher bin Abdullah. In 1964, the Tunisian Art Bureau purchased the house and made it the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions of Tunis. In 1978, the palace was transformed into a museum displaying the daily life of the Tunisian nobles of Tunis in the nineteenth and twentieth century. It is divided into two parts: one for family life and traditions, and the other for the public life of the city and its institutions (markets, mosques, and cafes).