The French Minister of the Interior has been on a two-day working visit to Morocco since Thursday. During his stay, Gérald Darmanin will sign two bilateral cooperation agreements with his Moroccan counterpart, Abdelouafi Laftit.
Innovation is the watchword for Marrakech’s tourism operators to emerge from the crisis that has plunged the sector. Operators are urging Royal Air Maroc to provide more support for an effective tourism recovery.
The Berber Museum, created in 2011 by Pierre Bergé in Marrakech, changes its name and becomes the Pierre Bergé Museum of Berber Arts. The Jardin Majorelle Foundation explains this.
The Museum of Jewish Art and History has been hosting an exhibition of photographs of the rural Jewish communities that lived in Morocco since June 30 and until 2021. These are works by the photographer, draftsman and ethnologist Jean Besancenot.
After several months of closure due to confinement, and several weeks of preparation, the National Foundation of Museums (FNM) has announced the reopening of museums. According to the institution, the museums are ready to welcome the public in complete safety while respecting the health standards.
On the initiative of the non-profit organization Museum and Documentation Center of Moroccan Immigration in Belgium (ASBL Mémorial), a memorial museum of Moroccan immigration will be inaugurated in Brussels, early 2021.
The city of Rabat has been home to a new national photography museum since Tuesday, January 14. Initiated by the National Museums Foundation, its inauguration within the walls of the Fort Rottembourg aims to enrich the mapping of museums in Morocco.
The Spanish painter, Antonio Montiel, will arrive in Morocco next November, in order to paint the portrait of King Mohammed VI, like the King of Spain Felipe VI and the Queen of England, Elizabeth.
Installed at the main entrance of the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, "The Horse", the mythical and very famous work of the great Colombian sculptor, Fernando Botero, seduces more than one Rabati. At the same time, several other works are exhibited, on the occasion of the events honoring the 20 years of the reign of King Mohammed VI.
From October 17, 2019 to January 25, 2020, Rabat will host nearly 250 heritage and contemporary works of art from several public and private collections of Islamic cultures in Morocco, Africa and Europe. Three spaces in the capital are planned to host this unprecedented exhibition whose theme is "Treasures of Islam in Africa, from Timbuktu to Zanzibar".
Akon, the world star of Senegalese origin, would currently be in Marrakech, after first passing through Casablanca. He shared photos of himself on Instagram in the ochre city.
Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, received Mehdi Qotbi, President of the National Museums Foundation (FNM), an interview during which the catalog of the exhibition "The Colors of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Musée d’Orsay" was presented.