Marie Baz Museum — Attraction in Mount Lebanon Governorate

It was a Sunday morning mid July when we visited the museum. It is part of an older palace built by Fakhreddine I and II. The museum boasts a decent number of wax statues of the most prominent figures in Lebanese history. Some of them are truly work of art. We were extremely luck to be guided by old man Mr George Boustany, a veteran local guide with more than 55 years of guiding experience! He was so generous with his info and spent a lot of time explaining to us the heritage behind the museum and the palace. Worth it more for the palace than the...

The location is beautiful in the heart of Deir el Qamar with great view and amazing ambiance. The museum is inside an old traditionnal Lebanese building , a very beautiful one About the museum the entrance fee is 15000L.L. The museum is very crowded and bad organized. The statues are placed near each other without a clear classification according to a certain subject. In one small location you can find tens of statues which doesn't give each item it's proper value in my opinion. Overall the place is beautiful but needs some...

I visited the castle which was built by prince Fakhr El Dein one of the rules of Druze in Lebanon. They convert it now to a wax museum. It is nice but small. The people there were very friendly and helpful. When we finished we had saj manaqeesh and enjoyed walking around as the weather was nice. I liked also that they plant the rosemary around the whole castle which gave the place a nice...