The Red Castle Museum, also known as Assaraya Alhamra Museum or the Archaeological Museum of Tripoli, is an important museum that is located in a historic building in the city of Tripoli, within the sovereign country in North Africa, Libya. Established in 1919 when the country was under colonial rule of Italy, a section of the Red Castle Fortress was converted to a museum in order to house many of the archaeological artifacts scattered across the country since prehistoric times to present.