The National Museum of Beirut (Arabic: متحف بيروت الوطنيّ , Matḥaf Bayrūt al-waṭanī) is the principal museum of archaeology in Lebanon.The collection begun after World War I, and the museum was officially opened in 1942.The museum has collections totaling about 100,000 objects, most of which are antiquities and medieval finds from excavations undertaken by the ...