MACAAL
Red-brick private museum of African and diaspora art built around riad-style courtyards on the city's edge.
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This guide to MACAAL in Marrakesh traces a decades-long secret: a local developer, Alami Lazraq, quietly collecting African and diaspora art on business trips across the continent for forty years, filling warehouses no outsider ever saw. It follows his son Othman, who studied architecture abroad and came home asking why the collection stayed hidden, and the choice that led the family to open a museum around it. The red-brick courtyards echo the old Marrakech medina, reworked by French architect Didier Lefort into shaded galleries cut with mashrabiya screens.
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