Dar Jamai Museum

The Dar Jamai is a late nineteenth-century palace beside the El-Hedim square in Meknes, built for a family of viziers who served the sultan. Its rooms and pavilions surround an Andalusian garden of cypress and fruit trees, and the interiors preserve painted cedar ceilings, carved plaster and a fine reception hall. Since the 1920s the palace has housed a museum of Moroccan arts, displaying ceramics, jewellery, textiles, woodwork and wrought iron from the region. It complements the imperial monuments nearby with domestic craft.