Morocco Guide
Marrakesh
Maison Tiskiwin
Opening time: Daily 9.30am–12.30pm & 3.30–5.30pm
Price: 15dh
Address: 8 Rue de la Bahia, north of the Mellah
The Maison Tiskiwin is a beautiful townhouse, built at the beginning of the twentieth century in Spanish-Moroccan style. The house is easy to find: 200m north of the Bahia Palace on Rue Riad Zitouan el Djedid, where the street opens out to the left, take a right turn (under an arch), and it's 100m ahead on the right (look for the yellow sign).
Within lies a unique collection of Moroccan and Saharan artefacts, billed as "a journey from Marrakesh to Timbuktu and back". The items on display are furnished from the collection of a Dutch anthropologist, Bert Flint, a Morocccan resident since 1957. Each of the rooms features carpets, fabrics, clothes and jewellery from a different region of the Sahara, and explanatory notes in French describe the exhibits room by room. The exhibition illustrates the longstanding cultural links across the desert, a result of the centuries of caravan trade between Morocco and Mali.