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Libya's Red Castle museum opens for first time since fall of Gaddafi

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14.12.2025

By Ahmed Elumami

Dec 12 (Reuters) - Libya's national museum, formerly known as As-Saraya ​Al-Hamra or the Red Castle, has reopened ​in Tripoli, allowing the public access to some of the country's finest historical ⁠treasures for the first time since the revolt that toppled Muammar Gaddafi.

The museum, Libya's largest, wasclosed in 2011 during a NATO-backed uprising against ​longtime ruler Gaddafi, who appeared on the castle's ramparts ‍to deliver a fiery speech.

Renovations were ​started in March 2023 by the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU), which........

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