Mouassine Museum

[7][6] This enticed a relatively large number of bourgeois or aristocratic families to build their residences here,[7]: 420–421  resulting in a concentration of structures dating from the Saadian period in this area.

[2][1] It consists of a residential home which includes a douiria (or dwiriya), a small house or upper floor apartment which was used to receive guests, often integrated to a larger riad or mansion.

[2][1][12][11] Although some of the old wooden doors and ceilings were visible, Manac'h suspected that the original walls of the house might be hidden beneath the recent layers of plaster, and recruited the help of Xavier Salmon, a curator at the Louvre Museum, to investigate.

[2] They conducted tests and discovered that under the thick layers of modern white plaster was the original pinkish gypsum-based stucco of the historic douiria.

[2][1] The main central room is particularly rich in decoration, with carved stucco featuring geometric patterns and Kufic letter motifs as well as sculpted and painted wooden ceilings.