The wealth of Algeria's heritage is brought home in the modest but well chosen compilation on display at the National Museum of Antiquities, a short stroll from the Bardo Museum. The collected works of antiquities is drawn from sites around the town and all over Algeria. Amongst the early works are fine ivory carvings and great, totemic Libyan-period fighters on horseback.

There is statue from Cherchell and mosaics from Tipaza, a area of bronzes including a magnificent fragment of a horse's leg and hoof, and an astonishing third-century figure of a chubby child holding an eagle to its torso. There is also a collected works of Islamic fine art from across the Maghreb. The museum sits at the top of the Parc de la Liberté, a typical piece of French city planning at the top of rue Didouche Mourad.