Built at the 17th century, the residence Dar Ben Achour, which is also used as seat of the Library of the town of Tunis counts among the many monuments which make the pride of the Medina of the town of Tunis.
Located in the residential district of the Pasha, the residence bears the name of a family of Andalusian origin and which appears among the notable ones of Tunis of yesteryear.
The residence was occupied at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th century by sheik Mohamed Al Aziz Bouattour, top dog (the equivalent of Prime Minister currently) of Tunisia of 1882 to 1907.

It then bequeathed it to his small son Mohamed Tahar Ben Achour, then in Mohamed Fadhel Ben Achour, two large scholars who marked cultural, scientific and religious Tunisia by their work, research and writings.
Acquired at the end of the Seventies by the town hall of Tunis, the residence was restored before sheltering in 1983 the Library of the town of Tunis, then, in 1990, the activities of Tunisian association “Monuments and sites”.
By sheltering the Library of the town of Tunis, Dar Ben Achour in more than one way becomes interesting since this Library has the role, inter alia, to collect, to file and preserve the historical documents, the manuscripts going back to several centuries, the prototypes, the tables, etc
The library organizes, regularly, of the meetings literary and scientific, the conferences, the exposures of photographs what gives the opportunity to the citizens and to in love with the old city of Tunis to visit, or to revisit, the residence Dar Ben Achour.