Contact Information

• Name:

  Musée Sidi Med Ben Abdellah

• Postal Address:

  Délégation Provinciale de la Culture. B.P. 320
  Essaouira
  Morocco

• Location:

  Rue Laalouj

• Telephone:

  212 044 75300

• Facsimile:

  212 044 785289

• Director:

  Mlle. Ghita Rabouli

• Year founded:

  1980

Collections

• Type of repository:

  Museum

• Types of source material:

  Artifacts
  Government records
  Personal papers
  Photographs
  

• Size:

  more than 1,000 objects

• Holdings:

  The collection consists of musical instruments, carpets, costumes, gold jewelry, weapons (daggers, swords, and guns), furniture made of thuya wood, fragments of ceilings in painted wood, manuscripts, photographs, old maps of the city and the region of Essaouira, pottery and ceramics, currency, paintings. The collection dates from the 18th-20th centuries.

• Receiving new material?

  No

• Languages:

  Arabic, French
  

Access Conditions

• Access conditions:

  Payment of 10 Dh per person

• Finding tools:

  Card catalogs
  Inventories
  

• Copier available?:

  No

Repository publications: