Dar Si Said

Dar Si Said (Arabic: دار السي سعيد) is a historic late 19th-century palace and present-day museum in Marrakesh, Morocco.

[1] It was built between 1894 and 1900 by Si Sa'id ibn Musa, a vizier and minister of defence under his brother Ba Ahmad ibn Musa, who was the Grand Vizier and effective ruler of Morocco during the same period under Sultan Abdelaziz (ruled 1894–1908).

[2][3][4] After 1914, under the French Protectorate administration, the palace served as the seat of the regional leaders of Marrakesh.

Its architectural highlights include a grand reception hall on the upper floor and a large riad garden with a central pavilion of painted wood.

[13] Its collection included an Andalusi marble basin crafted at Madinat al-Zahra between 1002 and 1007, which was later reused in the Ben Youssef Madrasa,[14] where it was recently returned.