MUSEUMS OF MOROCCO
TANGIER
THE MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES
If you walk into the former kitchens of the Dar El Makhzen palace, you will come face to face with Moroccan antiquity and pre-history, such as bronzes and mosaics from the Roman sites of Lixus, Cotta, banasa or Volubilis.
The later was where the famous mosaic known as "The Voyage of venus" was found, showing the Goddess enthroned among a group of nymphs on a ship cutting its way through clear blue, almost transparent, waters.
The history of Tangier and its region is told on the first floor. In Room 3, devoted to antique funeral rites, there stands an amazing life-size model of a Carthaginian tomb, amidst a group of small lead sarcophagi and a child's tomb buried in a clay jay.
finally, you can end your visit in the peaceful andalusian garden, where the repreoduction of an antique necropolis appears to have been slumbering for centuries.
LOCATION
Dar el Makhzen, Place de la Kasbah
Tangier
Tel. (212 9) 93 20 97
TANGIER
Museum of Moroccan Arts
Museum of Antiquities
American Legation Museum
Forbes Museum
CHEFCHAOUEN
Ethnographic Museum
TETOUAN
Archaeological Museum
Ethnographic Museum
LARACHE
Archeological Museum
MEKNES
Dar Jamai Museum
RABAT
Oudaias Museum
Archaeological Museum
Natural Science Museum
Postal Museum
FEZ
Dar Batha Museum
Borj-Nord Museum
MARRAKESH
Dar Si Said Museum
Majorelle Museum
Bert Flint Museum
ESSAOUIRA
Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Museum