Dar Si Said

Dar Si Said is a late nineteenth-century palace in the Marrakesh medina, built for a brother of the vizier who also commissioned the nearby Bahia Palace. Its rooms surround a garden courtyard with a central pavilion, and the interiors are noted for carved and painted cedar ceilings, sculpted plaster and colourful zellij. For decades it housed the Museum of Moroccan Arts, and it now serves as the National Museum of Weaving and Carpets, displaying rugs and textiles from across the country's regions.