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TETOUAN - THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM

Built in 1943, this museum presents Moroccan pre-historic and pre-Islamic sites from the northern region of Morocco. You cannot fail to be entranced by the welcome from the Three Graces as you enter, depicted in a superb Roman mosaic celebrating mythological extravagance.

Other rooms display objects and instruments which take us back to a way of life far removed from our own. Prehistoric tools, coins, bronzes and pottery bear witness to customs both ritualistic and familiar. For example, the Sumerian ex-voto statuette found close to Asilah.

Most of the figurine collection dates from the 1st century AD. At the end of the visit, let your imagination roam among the 60,000-odd volumes contained in the vast library dedicated to the preservation of North African literature.
 

LOCATION

The Archaeological Museum
2 rue Ben Hussaien
Tetouan
Tel. (212 9) 93 20 97