Allo, Beirut? exhibition - in pictures

Allo, Beirut? is at Beit Beirut, an open museum created to safeguard Lebanon's cultural heritage. All photos: Robert McKelvey for The National
Lily Abichahine's installation 'I Was Thrice Destroyed By A Mall'
Visitors to Allo, Beirut? are encouraged to imagine how they would redesign the capital in the period immediately after the Lebanese Civil War
The exhibition kitchen serves as an introduction room for the project, set up as a typical, pre-Civil War, middle-class Lebanese kitchen
Caves du Roy, Beirut's most famed nightclub of the 1960s, is recreated using fixtures and materials recovered from the abandoned venue
The office of Prosper Gay Para, owner of Caves du Roy, is recreated for Allo, Beirut? using real records and paraphernalia recovered from the defunct nightclub
Rawane Nassif's video installation 'Msaytbeh, The Mastaba, The Elevated Place'
Beit Beirut houses a collection of old photographs and other documents left behind after the Lebanese Civil War