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The National Jewellery Museum, in French Musée national de la Parure, of Morocco is an ethnographic museum, located in the former Musée des Oudayas in the country's capital Rabat. Along with the Kasbah of the Udayas , the museum's buildings and Andalusian -inspired gardens are part of UNESCO's World Heritage sites in Rabat. [ 1 ]
As one of the biggest tourist cities in Africa, Marrakech has over 400 hotels. La Mamounia, also known as Hôtel La Mamounia, is a 5-star hotel in the Art Deco-Moroccan fusion style, built in 1925 by Henri Prost and A. Marchis. [100] It is considered the most eminent hotel of the city, [101] [102] cited as the "grand dame of Marrakesh hotels."
The Museum of Marrakech is a historic palace and museum located in the old center of Marrakesh, Morocco. In addition to its notable architecture , the museum's collection showcases various historic art objects and contemporary art from Morocco.
Since 2011, however, the villa is now home to the Berber Museum (Musée Pierre Bergé des Arts Berbères), exhibiting objects of Amazigh (Berber) culture. [11] [12] The villa also holds a collection of Majorelle's paintings. [13] [verification needed] Development of the garden complex is ongoing. Profits from the gardens are used to fund new ...
The Association Nationale pour le Développement des Arts de la Mode (English: National Association for the Development of the Fashion Arts) commonly known as ANDAM, is a nonprofit association created 1989, which organizes a contest intended to identify each year and launch designers on the scene of the French and international fashion.
It was converted into a museum of "indigenous arts" (meaning Moroccan art) and woodcraft in 1930 or 1932. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 1957, after Moroccan independence, the palace was split into a museum section and a section occupied by the Service de l’Artisanat (Agency of Artisanship).
Copperplate from Description des Arts et Métiers Copperplate from Description des Arts et Métiers. Descriptions des Arts et Métiers, faites ou approuvées par messieurs de l'Académie Royale des Sciences (French for "Descriptions of the Arts and Trades, made under the direction of the gentlemen of the Royal Academy of Sciences"), is a collection of books on crafts that was published by the ...
The first museum dates to 1882, when collectors with an interest in the applied arts formed the initial organization. For many years it was known as the Union centrale des arts décoratifs (UCAD), but in December 2004 it was renamed “Les Arts décoratifs”. Pamela Golbin is the chief curator of fashion and textiles at Les Arts décoratifs. [1]