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Marrakesh is the fourth largest city in the of the Kingdom of Morocco.Located in a 19th century palace, the residence of Bou Ahmed's brother Si Said is home to the Museum of Moroccan Arts (opened 1932), regarded as one of Morocco’s most eloquent tributes to the skills of its master craftsmen, a monument to Moroccan mâalems (master artisans).  On display is a collection of granary doors, Tuareg leather bags, ceramics, embroidery, carpets, weaponry, and Berber jewellery. On the ground floor you can find clothes, objects in beaten copper, arms and Berber jewellery. Many of the objects on display are still used and worn in mountain areas

Surrounding a splendid

courtyard filled with shady

cypress trees, flowers, a

fountain and gazebo, the museum’s

exhibition rooms are filled with a wealth of items

showcasing some of the finest examples of

Morocco’s rich arts and crafts

heritage

Brugmansia (angel's trumpets)

Courtyard garden

Mouchrabieh.Turned and painted wood

The tanners, these craftsmen specialized in the transformation of hides into leather, lived Marrakech since the early days of its founding. The leathers are here exposed embroidered, painted, excised

Bag made from raw leather and adorned with intricate embroidery the 'Berber bag,' or more accurately, the Shoukara, is worn by men on their long journeys through the desert.

used for sitting on or resting your feet on, the pouf

The art of the point: Embroidery

Ceiling

a berber woman dressed in silver jewellery

The ceramic, secular tradition constitues an art more than a job. Art of decoration and design, it furnishes the Morrocan houses and taken part in all the sectors of the life

Different from the rural pottery, known by its simplicity, its harshness and its

nudity, the city ceramic dedicates

heads of work enameled

monochrome or polychromatic of an

unequalled sharpness

The Dar Si Said Museum is actually a sumptuous old palace with stunning Hispano-Moorish ceilings, plaster work and carved cedar woodwork. It’s worth coming to this museum just to see the really impressive architecture and interior decoration

Decorated Powder Flask

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