Marrakech's museums
From Yves Saint Laurent cobalt to the Berber collections - Marrakech's museums, from the medina to Guéliz. What changes month to month, and the essentials worth the walk.
ART & DESIGN Yves Saint Laurent Museum
Less a museum than a setting: the Studio KO building as much as the dresses, minutes from the Jardin Majorelle.
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10 museums · medina & Guéliz ART & DESIGN Yves Saint Laurent Museum
Less a museum than a setting: the Studio KO building as much as the dresses, minutes from the Jardin Majorelle.
HERITAGE Dar Si Said Museum
The national Weaving and Carpet Museum, set in a 19<sup>th</sup>-century palace with painted cedar ceilings, near the Bahia Palace.
PHOTOGRAPHY La Maison de la Photographie
Early photographs of Morocco in a restored medina riad, with a rooftop café that opens onto the roofs and the Atlas.
MACMA, Marrakech Museum of Art and Culture
A private Guéliz museum devoted to art in Morocco: painting and, most of all, the earliest photographs of the country, plus part of the Orientalist collection.
CRAFTS Maison Culturelle du Tapis (Carpet Museum)
A private museum entirely devoted to the Moroccan carpet, opened in late 2025 in a riad in the Laksour district: six rooms by region, live weaving and a terrace over the medina.
HERITAGE Pierre Bergé Berber Museum
Jewellery, costumes and Berber objects gathered by Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent, in Jacques Majorelle's former studio, inside the Jardin Majorelle.
ART & DESIGN The Marrakech Museum (Dar Menebhi)
A late 19<sup>th</sup>-century palace around a monumental patio, on Place Ben Youssef: Moroccan art and crafts collections and temporary exhibitions.
The Museum of Moroccan Culinary Art
The first museum devoted to Moroccan cuisine, in an 18<sup>th</sup>-century palace near the Bahia: recipes, utensils, workshops and a restaurant on the roof.
The Museum of the Moroccan Art of Living
The Moroccan arts of living - tea, dress, the table, architecture - told in six rooms, in a 19<sup>th</sup>-century medina riad.
The Palmeraie Museum
Moroccan contemporary art in a two-hectare park in the palm grove, out of the centre: the Benchaâbane Foundation.
Museums on the map
From the medina to Guéliz, and out to the Palmeraie.Our method
What we recommend, we have seen - and paid our own ticket
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