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Dar Jamai Museum
Meknes city, Morocco
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Jamai had a number of different uses. Built in 1882 to be the residence of the illustrious Jamai family, which included two of Moulay el-Hassan's ministers (1873-1894), it was used as a military hospital after 1912, only becoming the Museum of Moroccan Art in 1920.
The elaborate decoration with sculpted plaster
and painted wood as well as the andalusian garden planted with cypress and fruit
trees, gives an accurate idea of the degree of luxury enjoyed by the prosperous
bourgeoisie of Meknes. Local craftsmen are particularly skilled in
working and painting wood such as chests, panels, and moucharaby, in the use of
rich colours for the decoration of their pottery and in the magnificent
multi-hued embroidery for which they are so famous. LOCATION Dar Jamai Museum
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