Gardens, ornament and craft, and the continent's first museum of contemporary African art.
The designer's museum (2017), in a building of terracotta brick laid like the weave of a fabric, a few steps from the cobalt-blue garden of the painter Jacques Majorelle, which Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé saved in 1980.
The Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, the first of its kind in North Africa, founded by the Lazraq family. Reopened in February 2025 after the 2023 earthquake, with its collection rehung.
A 16th-century Quranic school with carved cedar, stucco and zellige around a courtyard pool.
A 19th-century vizier's palace, now the national museum of weaving and carpets, with the rural rugs of the Atlas next to the court's.
Rooms, ruins and curiosities: the city's other museum.
The burial chambers of the Saadian sultans, 16th century, walled up and forgotten until 1917: carved cedar, stucco lace and marble.
A 19th-century palace garden restored in 2016, with an Islamic garden and an exotic one, and its original water system.
A private collection of photographs of Morocco from 1870 to 1960, in an old fondouk, with the first colour film shot in the Atlas.
The Dutch anthropologist Bert Flint's collection of Saharan and Berber crafts, laid out in a riad as a journey from Marrakech to Timbuktu: jewellery, textiles, saddles, a tent.
A former hospital for storks (bellarj means stork) by the Ben Youssef Madrasa, now a cultural foundation with exhibitions around a quiet courtyard.
André Heller's garden in the Ourika valley, about 30 minutes away.
Ben Youssef Madrasa → Maison de la Photographie → Le Jardin Secret → taxi to Majorelle and the YSL museum.