Marrakech Museum

This guide to the Marrakech Museum follows the palace built by Mehdi al-Mnebhi, Morocco's minister of war, around 1900, and how it was seized by the family of Thami El Glaoui while Mnebhi was serving as ambassador in London. You'll hear about the courtyard's carved cedar ceilings, zellij tilework and oversized brass chandelier, and about the palace's later turns as state property and a girls' school before it opened as a museum in 1997. Stand beneath the chandelier and picture the string of very different owners who once claimed this same room.