Moroccan Culinary Art Museum

The Moroccan Culinary Art Museum, housed in an 18th-century palace in Marrakesh’s Medina, offers immersive exhibits on Morocco’s culinary history, interactive cooking classes, a rooftop restaurant, and a tea salon, providing a comprehensive cultural experience.

Planning your visit

The Moroccan Culinary Art Museum occupies an eighteenth-century riad in the Marrakesh medina, and it covers the country's cuisine as a cultural history — the Berber, Arab, Andalusian, Jewish and sub-Saharan strands that produced it, the spice trade, the tagine and couscous traditions, bread, preserved lemons, and the equipment and rituals of the Moroccan kitchen.

The building itself is a substantial part of the appeal: courtyards, zellij tilework, carved cedar and a rooftop terrace with views across the medina toward the Koutoubia minaret and the Atlas mountains beyond.

The museum functions as more than a display space. Cooking classes run in the kitchens, taught by dadas — the women cooks who traditionally held the recipes — covering tagine, salads and bread from market ingredients. A restaurant and tea salon operate on the roof.

For visitors, this is one of the better ways to convert a week of eating in Morocco into some understanding of what is being eaten.

Bookable options include museum visits with coffee breaks and full cooking classes. Current availability is shown below.