Bahia Palace
Rue Imam Al Ghazali, Marrakesh, 40008, Morocco
The Bahia Palace is the finest example of Moroccan palatial architecture open to visitors — a 19th-century palace built over 14 years (1866-1900) for Si Moussa, the grand vizier of Sultan Hassan I, and later expanded by his son Bou Ahmed, who intended it to be the greatest palace ever built in Morocco.
Dar Si Said Museum
Derb Riad Zitoun Jdid El Arsa Medina, Marrakesh, 40030, Morocco
Dar Si Said is a 19th-century palace that houses the Museum of Moroccan Arts — a collection of woodwork, ceramics, jewellery, carpets, and weapons displayed in rooms whose own decoration (carved cedar ceilings, zellige tilework, stucco arabesques) is as impressive as the objects they contain.
Jardin Majorelle & Yves Saint Laurent Museum
Rue Yves Saint Laurent, Guéliz, Marrakech
Jardin Majorelle is the most famous garden in Morocco — a 1-hectare Art Deco botanical garden created by French painter Jacques Majorelle over 40 years beginning in 1923, rescued from development by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in 1980, and now the most visited attraction in Marrakech after Jemaa el-Fna.
Maison de la Photographie
46 Rue Ahal Fès, Medina, Marrakech
The Maison de la Photographie is a small, essential museum in the northern medina that houses a collection of over 10,000 photographs, glass negatives, and postcards documenting Morocco from the 1870s to the 1960s — a visual record of a country transitioning from traditional kingdom through colonial protectorate to modern nation.
Musée de Marrakech
Rue El Youssi, Marrakesh, 40070, Morocco
The Musée de Marrakech occupies the Dar Menebhi Palace — a 19th-century palace on Place Ben Youssef that was restored by the Omar Benjelloun Foundation and opened as a museum in 1997.
Museum of African & Amazigh Art (MACAAL)
Route de l'Ourika, Marrakesh, 40000, Morocco
MACAAL (Musée d'Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden) is North Africa's first museum dedicated to contemporary African art — a purpose-built gallery on the outskirts of Marrakech that houses the collection of the Al Maaden Foundation alongside rotating exhibitions of contemporary African artists.
Saadian Tombs
Rue de la Kasbah, Marrakesh, 40040, Morocco
The Saadian Tombs are the most exquisite funerary architecture in Morocco — a 16th-century royal mausoleum complex that was sealed and forgotten for centuries until the French discovered it during an aerial survey in 1917.
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