Musée de la palmeraie, Art contemporain et nature
Rammed-earth farm buildings turned contemporary art galleries, set in a two-hectare garden of roses and orchards.
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This guide to the Musee de la Palmeraie in Marrakesh follows Abderrazzak Benchaabane, the botanist who helped shape the Jardin Majorelle for Yves Saint Laurent before turning to his own long-running art collection. It traces how he found a cluster of abandoned rammed-earth farm buildings on the road to Fes and rebuilt them into a museum that opened in 2011, its earthen rooms now holding around fifty Moroccan painters, photographers, calligraphers and sculptors. Outside, the two-hectare garden unfolds in sections that echo his own life, from an Andalusian courtyard to rose beds heavy with scent.
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