The exceptional museum of Morocco’s water management achievements over centuries
Regular visitors to Marrakech looking for something unusual to admire would do well to pay a visit to one of the city’s latest attractions in the shape of the snappily named ‘Musée Mohammed VI pour la Civilisation de l’Eau au Maroc’.
Opened in 2017, this is not only one of the largest cultural projects ever launched in Morocco it is also the biggest such attraction on the African continent, the state-of-the-art exhibition being dedicated to water management in Morocco, specifically, and the wider world in general.
Located on the northern fringes of Marrakech, just beyond the Palmeraie district, the attraction is one of the new generation of museums designed to be both entertaining and educational, historical as well as scientific.
About the Museum
Covering an area of approximately 20,000 sq ms, the multi-faceted high-tech museum, which also serves as an exhibition and conference centre, features a Moorish-style three-storey, exhibition building, in the shape of a doughnut, its central circular patio housed beneath a domed atrium, offering visitors multi-lingual interactive screens and a range of interactive exhibits dedicated, respectively, to:
- Water & Science
- Water & its management over centuries
- The importance of hydro-electric projects
- The future of water management
- Renewable energy sources
Beginning, unexpectedly, on the 3rd floor of the building, the exhibition is housed in four circular galleries covering all the above themes, from the geological characteristics of Morocco to the development of sustainable power sources in major infrastructure projects, several of them in the Atlas Mountains.
This exceptional Marrakech Museum is open daily from 1000 am to 1700. Entry prices are:
- General Public (Adults): 45 dh
- Moroccan Residents: 30 dh
- Families: Admission is free for children under the age of 12 accompanied by two paying adults