Dar Jamaï Museum
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The Musée Dar Jamaï or Musée des Arts et métiers traditionnels de Meknès is located in a former vizier's palace in the center of the Moroccan city of Meknès .
location
The outwardly inconspicuous Dar Jamaï Palace is located on the southern edge of the Meknes medina on the Place el Hedim opposite the Bab Mansour .
history
The Palais Dar Jamaï was built in the early 1880s by Mohamed Ben Larbi Jamaï, the vizier of the then Sultan Mulai al-Hassan I (r. 1873-1894). At the beginning of the French protectorate (1912) the building was converted into a hospital and from 1920 served as the Musée des Arts Indigènes for cultural purposes.
architecture
The Palais dar Jamaï is a two-story city palace built around an inner courtyard with numerous rooms in the Moorish style . The architecture impresses with the harmonious interplay and interlocking of different materials (tile mosaics, stucco and cedar wood carvings ) as they also occur in earlier buildings, especially in the Merinid Medersen .
collection
Several rooms in the museum also impress with their high material aesthetics and are equipped with high-quality small furniture (small tables, seat cushions, etc.) and woven carpets; others present jewelry, embroidery, ceramics, and copper and brass utensils.
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Coordinates: 33 ° 53 '35 " N , 5 ° 33' 55" W.