--- description: Tourists flee when they hear gunshots title: Watch a Video Showing the Moments Before the Tunisia Museum Attack image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tunisia](/tag/tunisia/) ## Tunisia Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch the Moments Before the Tunisia Museum Attack  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Mar 25, 2015 5:11 PM CUT  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Mar 25, 2015 5:11 PM CUT A tourist has released a video showing the moments before the attack on the National Bardo Museum in Tunisia last week. The video, taken by Italian tourist Maria Tira Gelotti, shows a group of tourists exploring the museum in Tunisia’s capital Tunis when they hear gunshots and realize it is under attack. “Did they shoot? Did they shoot?” a woman asks in Italian. The group flees when they hear a second round of automatic gunfire. The attack killed 20 tourists. At least two gunmen opened fire after getting off buses at the museum inside the parliament compound. Both were later shot dead by police, and authorities say they are still searching for a third suspect. The Bardo Museum held a ceremonial reopening Tuesday. \[[_NBC_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tunisia-museum-attack-new-video-shows-moment-shooting-started-n329791 "undefined")\] _Read next:_ [_Deadly Museum Attack Highlights Tunisia’s Internal Struggles_](http://time.com/3753563/tunisia-bardo-museum-attack-domestic-politics-youth-issues/?iid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3758269/tunisia-terror-attack-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3758269/tunisia-terror-attack-video/"},"headline":"Watch the Moments Before the Tunisia Museum Attack","datePublished":"2015-03-25T17:11:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:26:06.528Z","description":"Tourists flee when they hear gunshots","url":"https://time.com/3758269/tunisia-terror-attack-video/","keywords":["Tunisia","Terrorism","ISIS"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/tunisia/","name":"Tunisia"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3758269/tunisia-terror-attack-video/","name":"Watch the Moments Before the Tunisia Museum Attack"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"A Year in Space: The Mission","description":"On March 28, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly begins a historic year in Space. Time follows Kelly and his twin brother, Mark, as they work the test the boundaries of long-term space travel.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/gEqrnCPI/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-03-24T14:30:40.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/gEqrnCPI.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3758269/tunisia-terror-attack-video/","duration":"PT3M59S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3758269/tunisia-terror-attack-video/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```