The Dar Si Saïd Museum - Marrakech

The Dar Si Saïd Museum, Marrakech, Morocco

 The Dar Si Saïd Museum is a museum located in Marrakech, entirely dedicated to Moroccan wood craftsmanship.

This large residence was built at the end of the 19th century by Si Saïd, brother of Ba Ahmed, chamberlain of Sultan Moulay Hassan I and Grand Vizier of Moulay Abdelaziz, to serve as his residence.

Dar Si Said was converted into a museum in 1932 by the Beaux Arts Administration.

Most of the collections of this regional museum come from Marrakech and the south and particularly from Tensift, Souss, High Atlas, Anti-Atlas, Bani, Tafilalet.

These are homogeneous sets of woodwork, jewelry from the South, pottery and ceramics, weapons, costumes and a rich collection of carpets and weavings from the South, and some archaeological pieces including the marble tank from the beginning of the eleventh century.

Pictures :

- Street door -

- Rooms and decorated doorways inside the palace -

- Rooms of the palace with exhibit on Moroccan carpets -

- Carved marble basin crafted in Cordoba between 1002 and 1007 (late caliphal period) -

- Painted decoration inside the wooden pavilion of the garden -

- Cupola over the grand hall -

One of the grand halls in the palace

- A courtyard with fountain in the palace -

- The riad garden -

- Courtyard with fountain in the palace -