The Berber Museum at the Jardin Majorelle is a curated collection of Moroccan Amazigh material culture set in the cobalt-blue painter's studio of Jacques Majorelle in central Marrakesh. The museum was founded in December 2011 by Pierre Bergé and the Pierre Bergé–Yves Saint Laurent Foundation, three years after Saint Laurent's death and a quarter-century after Bergé and Saint Laurent had purchased the Majorelle garden in 1980 to preserve it from real-estate development.
The collection is curated principally from the personal holdings of Bergé and Saint Laurent and from acquisitions undertaken specifically for the museum. It comprises approximately six hundred objects organised across three rooms by region and category — silver jewellery (tabzimt fibulae, necklaces, headdresses, earrings) from the Souss, the Anti-Atlas, the High and Middle Atlas, and Kabylia; textiles, embroideries, and rugs; ceremonial weapons and daggers; carved and painted wooden doors; ceramics; and the principal vocabulary of Berber graphic and decorative motifs.
The galleries are organised chronologically and regionally rather than by object type, allowing the visitor to read Berber material culture as a continuous regional grammar across Morocco rather than as a typological inventory. The interpretive framing draws on the broader IRCAM-period scholarship on Amazigh identity and on the academic literature surrounding the Bert Flint Tiskiwin collection, the principal predecessor museum in Marrakesh.
The Jardin Majorelle complex (the Majorelle Garden, the Yves Saint Laurent Museum, and the Berber Museum) is one of the most-visited cultural sites in Morocco, with over seven hundred thousand annual visitors in the pre-pandemic period. The Berber Museum is the principal public-museum presentation of Moroccan Amazigh material culture in the country and an important destination for the contemporary Amazigh cultural movement and for international scholarship on Berber visual culture.