Musée Berbère Jardin Majorelle
Former painter's studio turned museum of Amazigh jewelry, textiles and wedding blankets from across Morocco.
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This guide to the Musee Berbere in the Jardin Majorelle in Marrakesh starts with painter Jacques Majorelle, who bought this plot in 1923 and filled it with cobalt-blue walls and cactus gardens, before Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge rescued it from ruin decades later. You'll hear how Berge turned Majorelle's old studio into a home for Berber culture in 2011, gathering hundreds of objects with Saint Laurent from the Rif Mountains to the edge of the Sahara. Look closely at the silver fibulae and woven wedding blankets in the cases around you, each one made for a body rather than a museum case.
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