About Association de sauvegarde de la médina de Tunis

Since its creation in 1967 by the Municipality of Tunis, the Association for the Preservation of the Medina has continued to perform various tasks. It mainly focuses on:

Raise public awareness of the importance of urban heritage and promote safeguarding ideas based on in-depth knowledge of the Medina.
Preserve and restore monuments in the Medina and adapt them to new functions.
Promote the restoration of residences and buildings located in the historic districts of Tunis by providing technical porn assistance and advice to their owners.
Ensure technical coordination between municipal services and other organizations working in the historic districts of Tunis.
A Raise awareness, train and supervise workers in the Medina and promote small trades by associating artisans in rehabilitation and restoration projects.

Welcome to its library and its documentation center and supervise students and researchers from Tunisia and abroad for training courses. Close contacts are maintained with national and foreign universities;
Organize and participate in national and international meetings on heritage.
Forge cooperation links at the Arab regional level or at the international level with research institutions or in charge of heritage. > In the sixties, the Medina of Tunis became increasingly threatened by the demolitions which could result from the breakthrough of large avenues through the historical fabric.

In response to these threats, the Municipality decided in 1967 to create the Association for the Protection of the Medina.

It set itself the objectives, among other things, to rehabilitate the image of the old town and to redefine its role in the Tunisian agglomeration.

The vocation of ASM is not only to preserve the specificity and unity of the historic city but also to ensure its integration into the rest of the city, in order to avoid its marginalization.

Thirty-nine years after its creation, and thanks to its architecture and town planning workshop and its construction team, ASM now carries out various missions in the Medina (advice, project management, restoration, study, training…).
It remains, above all, a place of meetings and research on urban, architectural and socio-economic questions which concern the historic city.