Gardens & Botany · Gueliz
Majorelle Garden & Pierre Bergé Museum of Berber Arts
The blue you see everywhere, and the Berber museum nobody talks about enough
About the place
Jacques Majorelle bought this palm grove in 1923 and spent forty years planting cacti brought back from around the world. The blue came in 1937; it's taken from the burnouses of Atlas Berbers and the window frames of mountain villages. After his death the garden fell apart, a hotel project loomed, and Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé bought it in 1980. Today it's the most visited place in the city, and you feel it: it's crowded. But the painter's old studio hides the Berber museum, with the jewellery of women from the Rif, the Souss and the Sahara in a black room lit like a night sky. Many people skip it. That's a mistake.
Don't miss
- 01The studio villa in Majorelle blue
- 02Over 300 species: cacti, palms, bamboo
- 03Silver jewellery from the Rif to the Sahara
- 04Yves Saint Laurent memorial
Visiting tip
Book the 8:30 slot on the official site the day before. At 8:30 you're thirty people; at 11, a thousand. The YSL memorial is at the back left, a plain Roman column.
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