Marrakech museums: what each costs, which day each is closed, and which to pick besides the Majorelle set

💡 The Short Version: Beyond the Majorelle set, there are four museums to choose from. The Dar El Bacha museum (60 MAD) and the Jamaâ el-Fna museum (40 MAD) are closed on Mondays. The Maison de la Photographie (80 MAD) is open every day. MACAAL (120 MAD), the African contemporary art museum, is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. The Yves Saint Laurent museum (140 MAD) is closed on Wednesdays. Prices are in dirham (MAD), about 13 to the pound. GetYourGuide sells no ticket for any of these except the Majorelle set. Or book a tour: the Majorelle garden, YSL and Berber museum entryad (from £33, 2 hours) sells the garden and its two museums as one product.

The museums, compared

Prices are the adult rate for a foreign visitor, from the operators, at about 13 MAD to the pound.

• Dar El Bacha and the Jamaâ el-Fna museum belong to the National Museums Foundation (FNM), which publishes their hours and prices at fnm.ma.
• Maison de la Photographie: residents pay 50 MAD and under-15s are free. Tickets are sold on the spot by card or cash, not online.
• MACAAL: African nationals and residents pay 60 MAD, and students and under-12s enter free. The ticket includes the Al Maaden Sculpture Park.
• Ramadan: hours shorten at MACAAL and at the Ben Youssef Madrasa. Check the operator’s page.

Tours worth paying for

None of these museums has a ticket on GetYourGuide, apart from the Jardin Majorelle’s two museums. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person.

The garden and both Majorelle museums

From £33 (usually £42) · 4.6 stars from 8,224 reviews · 2 hours

Marrakech: Majorelle Garden, YSL and Berber Museum Entryad is the combined entry sold by GetYourGuide. The official combined ticket is 330 MAD (about £25), at tickets.jardinmajorelle.com.

What to see

Pick by what you want to see, not by the list.

The courtyard of Dar El Bacha, with orange trees, a fountain and tiled columns. Photo: YassirZek, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. A palace interior: Dar El Bacha. The museum is housed in a palace in the medina. Its collection is Moroccan decorative arts and ethnographic objects: ceramics, textiles, jewellery, manuscripts and everyday objects. It reopened on 23 November 2023 after consolidation work following the earthquake.
2. The story of the square: the Jamaâ el-Fna museum. It is the first museum in Morocco dedicated to intangible heritage, in the former Bank al-Maghrib branch on the square, built in 1922 by the architects Auguste Cadet and Edmond Brion. It traces the history of the square, the storytellers’ circles (the halqa) and the performers who work them, and shows two paintings of the square by Jacques Majorelle.
3. Old photographs: the Maison de la Photographie. It has been open since 2009 at 46 Rue Ahl Fes, showing photographs of Morocco from 1860 to 1960, among them albumen prints from 1870, glass plates and autochromes.
4. Contemporary art: MACAAL. The Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden is in the Al Maaden district, and the museum asks you to allow 10 to 20 minutes for a taxi to arrive. Its team will book one.
5. Fashion: the Yves Saint Laurent museum. Its 400 m² permanent exhibition is devoted to Saint Laurent’s work. See the YSL museum guide.

A painted wooden ceiling in Dar El Bacha. Photo: R Prazeres, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What to skip: MACAAL on a short trip, since it is outside the medina and needs a taxi each way. Dar El Bacha and the Jamaâ el-Fna museum are the two to choose between for the old city.

Hours, rules and getting there

• Open every day: the Maison de la Photographie, the Berber museum, the Jardin Majorelle, the Bahia Palace, El Badi, the Saadian Tombs, the Ben Youssef Madrasa and Le Jardin Secret.
• Maison de la Photographie: 46 Rue Ahl Fes, Bin Lafnadek.
• MACAAL: Al Maaden, Sidi Youssef Ben Ali. Phone +212 6 76 92 44 92.

The Jardin Majorelle and the YSL museum share a ticket office, and the Bahia Palace, the Saadian Tombs and El Badi Palace, the Ben Youssef Madrasa and Le Jardin Secret have their own guides. Jemaa el-Fnaa has the square the Jamaâ el-Fna museum explains. For the rest of the city’s bookings, see what to book before you go to Marrakech. Marrakech after the earthquake lists what has reopened, and 3 days in Marrakech fits the museums round the closed days. To sleep nearby, where to stay in Marrakech compares the areas, and where to eat in Marrakech lists places to eat.