Museum · Dar El Bacha
Dar El Bacha – Musée des Confluences
The pasha of Marrakech’s 1910s palace, now a museum, with one of the city’s finest courtyards and a famous coffee house.
- Opening hours
- 10:00–18:00 · closed Mon
- Ticket
- 60 MAD (≈ €6)
- Time needed
- 1 h
- Best time
- Morning
- Jemaa el-Fna
- 10 min on foot
Why go
It sits beside the busy Mouassine route but behind a plain wall, and many visitors take it for a private house.
Built for Thami El Glaoui, the powerful pasha who received Churchill and Hollywood stars, the palace is a showcase of early 20th-century craftsmanship: carved plaster, painted cedar and a garden courtyard of orange trees.
It now hosts exhibitions on the cultures that met in Morocco. Bacha Coffee, in the former reception rooms, is a destination of its own; expect a queue.
Tips
- Closed on Mondays; free for Moroccans and residents on Fridays.
- For Bacha Coffee, come at opening or late afternoon to avoid the queue.
Practical
Dar El Bacha, Medina, Marrakech
10 min on foot from Jemaa el-Fna
10:00–18:00 · closed Mon
60 MAD (≈ €6) — Under 18: 15 MAD.
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