Museum of Mouassine Music

This guide to the Museum of Mouassine Music in Marrakesh centers on the Mellakh family, who kept this Saadian-era mansion as a quiet private home for more than two centuries while the city grew loud beyond its walls. It follows the two-year restoration, led by painter Abdelleh Mellakh with Patrick Manac'h and Hamid Mergani, that relearned how sixteenth-century Saadian craftsmen layered light and ornament in a room built purely to receive guests. Listen for what a Louvre curator later called the finished work.