Marrakech monuments: tickets, opening hours, skipping the queue

Who sells what: three ways to buy your ticket

The Jardin Majorelle and the Yves Saint Laurent Museum: online only

Tickets for the Jardin Majorelle, the Pierre Bergé Museum of Berber Arts and the Yves Saint Laurent Museum are sold only on the official Jardin Majorelle ticketing website, for a specific date and time slot. There is no ticket office on site. In high season, morning slots sell out several days ahead: book as soon as your dates are fixed. Tickets offered by unauthorised websites will not get you into the garden.

The garden alone costs 170 MAD. The garden and Berber museum ticket costs 230 MAD, and the combined ticket with the Yves Saint Laurent Museum 330 MAD. The Yves Saint Laurent Museum is closed on Wednesdays: if you take the combined ticket, pick another day.

Ministry of Culture monuments: ticket office or online

The Bahia Palace, the Saadian Tombs, El Badi Palace, the Almoravid Koubba and the Menara pavilion are run by the Ministry of Culture. Since April 2025, their tickets have also been sold on the ministry's online platform, at the same price as at the ticket office: the e-ticket, with a QR code, is shown on your phone.

Prices are the same across these sites: 100 dh for a foreign adult and 50 dh for a foreign child aged 7 to 13 at the Bahia Palace, the Saadian Tombs, El Badi Palace and the Almoravid Koubba. The Menara pavilion is cheaper: 60 dh for a foreign adult and 30 dh for a child aged 7 to 13. Moroccans and residents pay 30 dh, or 10 dh for a child. Admission is free for people with reduced mobility, and for Moroccans on Fridays and on the first day of national and religious holidays. All these sites open daily from 9am to 5pm.

An online ticket saves you queuing at the ticket office, but not the queue to get in: at the Saadian Tombs, the line forms outside the Hall of Twelve Columns, whatever ticket you hold.

Other museums and gardens: at the ticket office

The Ben Youssef Madrasa, Le Jardin Secret, the Maison de la Photographie, Dar el-Bacha and MACAAL sell their tickets on site. Bring cash in dirhams: bank cards are not accepted everywhere.

The combined tickets that actually exist

With no city pass, a few tickets cover two or three sites:

• Jardin Majorelle, Pierre Bergé Museum of Berber Arts and Yves Saint Laurent Museum: 330 MAD, compared with 310 MAD if you buy the garden and the Yves Saint Laurent Museum separately; the main benefit is that the Berber museum is included.
• Maison de la Photographie and Mouassine Museum: the 80 MAD ticket for the Maison de la Photographie also gets you into the Mouassine Museum, devoted to music. Hang on to it.
• Le Jardin Secret and its tower: climbing the tower costs 40 MAD on top of the entry ticket.

Be wary of "Marrakech passes" sold by agencies or resellers: these are commercial packages, often with a guided tour, not cheaper official tickets.

Opening hours and closing days to remember

Most monuments open every day. The exceptions are mainly museums:

• Closed on Mondays: Dar el-Bacha – Museum of Confluences, Jemaa el-Fna Museum of Intangible Heritage.
• Closed on Wednesdays: Yves Saint Laurent Museum.
• Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays: MACAAL.
• Closed for renovation: Dar Si Said Museum and Tiskiwin Museum, with no reopening date announced.
• Opens early: the Jardin Majorelle, from 8am, an hour before the other sites.

During Ramadan, most sites close earlier in the afternoon: Le Jardin Secret, for example, then closes at 4:30pm. On religious holidays, some museums close.

Which order to visit in to avoid the queues

Tour groups reach the best-known sites mid-morning, between 10am and 11:30am. The trick is to be at a busy site as each one opens, then keep the quieter visits for the middle of the day.

Southern medina day

1. 9am: Saadian Tombs, right at opening, before the queue builds up around 10:30am.
2. 10am: El Badi Palace, ten minutes' walk away, vast and rarely overcrowded.
3. 11:30am: Bahia Palace, via the Mellah. The crowds are there, but the palace is large.
4. Afternoon: take a break, then head to the Menara late in the day for the light on the pool; the pavilion closes at 5pm.

Northern medina and Gueliz day

1. 8am: Jardin Majorelle, in the first slot booked online.
2. 10am: Yves Saint Laurent Museum, next door, as it opens (except on Wednesdays).
3. Early afternoon: Ben Youssef Madrasa and the Almoravid Koubba, facing each other on Place Ben Youssef.
4. Late afternoon: Maison de la Photographie, then its rooftop terrace at sunset.

Traps around the monuments

• "It's closed today": a passer-by claims the monument is closed or that the entrance is "this way". It is almost always a pretext to steer you to a shop or the tanneries. Walk right up to the door and check for yourself.
• Fake guides: only official guides wear a badge. An improvised escort ends with a demand for money. If you want a guide, book one in advance.
• Ticket resellers: for the Jardin Majorelle, only tickets from the official ticketing website are valid.
• Ticket office prices: the price is displayed; any extra charge "for the visit" demanded at the entrance is not official.

Other situations are described in our guide to scams to avoid in Marrakech.

Summary of prices and opening hours

Prices and opening hours checked in October 2026, outside Ramadan. Children pay less and often get in free: details are on each site's page.

Further reading

To choose between the museums, read our selection of Marrakech museums. If you would rather have a guide, our article on guided tours in Marrakech explains how to find an official guide, and the Marrakech travel budget helps you work out what your admissions will cost.