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TETOUAN - THE ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM

Transformed into a museum in 1948, the former fortress of the sultan Moulay Abderrahman now houses and preserves the best of popular tradition, with the marriage ceremony occupying as important place in the museum as it does in Moroccan people's lives.

Incredible attention has been lavished upon the most common objects. Even the most insignificant piece of embroidery reveals a diversity of motifs and colours firmly establishing art at the very centre of everyday life. But then, the Ethnographic Museum is, in fact, a museum dedicated to the art of living.
 

LOCATION

The Ethnographic Museum
Avenue Skala Bab El Oukla
Tetouan
Tel. (212 9) 97 05 05