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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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