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Marorelle Garden is one of the most charming and mystical gardens in Morocco. Created over a period of 40 years, it consists of a maze of criss-crossing alleys and Art Deco, Moorish buildings in bold colours. The garden itself is a huge and opulent collection of exotic plants and trees coming from distant lands, conceived as both a sanctuary and a laboratory by the French painter Jacques Majorelle from 1922 onwards. In 1980, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé bought the garden to save it from destruction as part of a hotel complex development project. Located in the painter’s former workshop, the Berber Museum offers a panorama of the incredible creativity of these people. From the Rif to the Sahara, more than 600 objects collected by Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent bear witness to the richness and the diversity of a still-thriving culture.
Majorelle Garden
Rue Yves Saint Laurent, Marrakech
+212 5 24 29 86 86
info@jardinmajorelle.com
About the Majorelle Garden Foundation
A Moroccan public institution, recognised as a self-financing, non-profit organisation, the Majorelle Garden Foundation looks after the preservation and the operation of the Majorelle Garden, the Berber Museum and the Yves Saint Laurent Museum Marrakech. Its revenues enabled it to open the Berber Museum in 2011 and the Yves Saint Laurent Museum Marrakech in 2017. All profits are reinvested within Morocco to finance the cultural, educational and social programmes that it supports.