Morocco Offers Half-Price Museum Entry to Expats, Featuring Delacroix Exhibition

This reduction covers the entire summer period and is part of the facilities granted to Moroccans living abroad by the tourist chain, mobilized for a good summer season, the press release from the management reports. The note adds that from July 7 to October 9, 2021, at the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMVI) in Rabat, an "event exhibition" is being organized.

It will allow Moroccans to discover the history of the painter and this journey which also provides a key to reading and understanding this period in Morocco, from a historical, diplomatic and above all artistic point of view, the source emphasizes.

The exceptional offer concerns the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Museum of History and Civilizations and the National Museum of Photography (Rabat). It also includes the Museum of Weaving and Carpets Dar Si Saïd and Dar El Bacha, Museum of Confluences (Marrakech), Villa Harris, Tangier Museum, the Kasbah des Cultures Méditerranéennes Museum (Tangier), in addition to the National Ceramics Museum in Safi and the Ethnographic Museum of Tetouan, the note specifies.

To recall, "Delacroix, souvenirs d’un voyage au Maroc" traces the painter’s journey through paintings, drawings, watercolors but also almost all the objects, clothes, weapons and musical instruments that he brought back from his trip and which accompanied him throughout his career as an artist. He is thus the first ambassador of the Moroccan light and colors that enchant him, the costumes and traditions that he draws and paints with wonder, the Foundation points out.

The exhibition "Delacroix, souvenirs d’un voyage au Maroc", organized with the Musée national Eugène-Delacroix - Établissement Public du Musée du Louvre, is a first on the African continent and in the Arab world.

Through this event exhibition, Moroccans will discover the story of the painter who had found in northern Morocco, precisely in Tangier in the 1800s, a fertile land of subjects, inspiration and thunderous revelations and a climate favorable to creation.