Jardin Majorelle Marrakech: Tickets, hours & visiting order

Most people walk into the Jardin Majorelle expecting a park. What they find in this corner of Marrakech is a walled garden of about 9,000 square metres, planted over forty years by the painter Jacques Majorelle, where narrow paths double back on themselves and a cobalt-blue building keeps appearing between the bamboo and the palms.

Next door, in a terracotta building whose brickwork looks woven rather than laid, the Yves Saint Laurent Museum tells the second half of the story. This guide covers what is on the site today, how tickets work now that they are sold online only, which day to avoid, and the order that makes a morning here go smoothly. Opening times and ticket rules come from the Fondation Jardin Majorelle, which runs the garden and both museums.

What the Jardin Majorelle site includes today Contents ↑

The name covers four separate spaces, and they do not keep the same hours. That detail matters more than anything else when you plan the morning, because it decides the order of the visit and which day works.

The four spaces run by the Fondation Jardin Majorelle, as published on its official websites (October 2026).

Space	Opens	Wednesday	What you see
Jardin Majorelle	8:00, every day	Open	The garden, the blue buildings
Villa Oasis garden	8:00	Closed	Private garden of Saint Laurent’s villa
Pierre Bergé Museum of Berber Arts	8:30, every day	Open	Amazigh objects, inside the garden
Yves Saint Laurent Museum	10:00, last entry 17:30	Closed	The designer’s work, exhibitions

Closing time in the garden shifts with the season, with last entry half an hour before the gates close. The foundation’s own pages have shown both a 17:30 and an 18:30 closing during 2026, so check the hours for your exact date rather than relying on a figure you saw elsewhere.

Majorelle Garden tickets: one official website, nowhere else Contents ↑

There is no ticket desk to fall back on. The foundation sells tickets only through its own website, tickets.jardinmajorelle.com, and states plainly that tickets bought anywhere else will not get you into the garden or the museums. That rules out resellers, websites that look official but are not, and anyone offering a ticket at the gate or in the street.

When you book, you choose a date and an entry time, and the foundation advises booking well ahead to get the slot you want. The purchase gives you a QR code that covers whatever you selected: the garden, the Berber museum, the Yves Saint Laurent Museum, or a combination. Check what your ticket includes before paying, because the museums are options you add, not part of every ticket.

A licensed guide does not sell tickets either, and should not. If you plan to visit with one, you still book your own ticket, in your own name, on the official site. Fake ticket offers around popular sites work the same way as the other common tourist scams in Morocco: a friendly approach, a sense of urgency, and a payment you cannot recover.

Which day and what time to visit Contents ↑

Wednesday is the day to avoid. Both the Yves Saint Laurent Museum and the Villa Oasis garden close that day, so a Wednesday visit leaves you with the main garden and the Berber museum only. On a short stay, that one detail is worth checking before anything else.

For the hour, the logic is simple: the garden opens at 8:00, the slots fill in advance, and the paths are narrow enough that a full garden feels full. An early slot gives you the walks while they are still quiet and leaves the rest of the morning for the museums. In July and August there is a second reason, which is the heat; our month-by-month look at Marrakech weather explains why mornings matter so much in summer.

The order that works Contents ↑

The opening times set the route for you. A visitor who arrives at 8:00 and heads straight for the Yves Saint Laurent Museum finds it shut for another two hours. Taken in this order, nothing waits:

• The garden first, from your entry time, while the paths are calm.
• The Berber museum, inside the garden, once it opens at 8:30.
• The Villa Oasis garden, included in the garden circuit, except on Wednesdays.
• The Yves Saint Laurent Museum from 10:00, a short walk along the same street.

At 9,000 square metres the garden is smaller than many people expect. Slow down instead of rushing to the museums: the point of the place is the planting and the colour, and both reward a second lap.

The garden Jacques Majorelle built Contents ↑

Jacques Majorelle, a French painter born in 1886, came to Morocco in 1917 and began planting here in the early 1920s. He treated the garden as a botanical laboratory, bringing in species from several continents, and he kept working on it for some forty years. In 1947 he opened it to the public.

The colour everyone photographs is known today as Majorelle blue, an intense cobalt he used on the walls, the planters and the window frames, set against the greens of the planting. The buildings themselves mix Art Deco lines with Moorish details. The foundation counts around 400 plant species in the garden, from cacti and succulents to bamboo, palms and water plants around the pools.

After Majorelle’s death in 1962 the garden declined. In 1980 Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé bought it to stop a hotel project, restored it and lived in the neighbouring villa, which they renamed Villa Oasis. Saint Laurent said the garden had been an endless source of inspiration for him, and after his death in 2008 his ashes were scattered here.

Villa Oasis garden and the temporary pavilion Contents ↑

For decades the Villa Oasis was the private side of the story. Its garden is now part of the visit circuit, every day except Wednesday. Check on the official site what the circuit covers on your date, since this part of the estate follows its own schedule.

Since 31 January 2025 the garden of the Villa Oasis also hosts a temporary pavilion of 100 square metres, designed by the Moroccan architect Hiba Bensalek and commissioned for the garden’s centenary. It is built for a two-year cycle, and the foundation plans a competition among young Moroccan architects for the next one. Its opening exhibition, Majorelle Flora, presented twenty plants chosen from the garden’s collection.

The Pierre Bergé Museum of Berber Arts Contents ↑

Many visitors walk past it. They should not. The small museum inside the garden, in Majorelle’s former studio, has been dedicated since 2011 to Amazigh culture: jewellery, textiles, and everyday and ceremonial objects from communities across Morocco. It opens at 8:30, which makes it the natural second stop after a first walk through the garden.

Seeing it before the Yves Saint Laurent Museum is the better order. Saint Laurent drew openly on Moroccan colour and craft, and having seen the originals first changes how you look at the work next door. If the objects catch your eye, our guide to Moroccan crafts follows the same traditions out into the workshops.

Inside the Yves Saint Laurent Museum Marrakech Contents ↑

The Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech, often shortened to mYSLm, opened in October 2017. The building was designed by Studio KO and covers more than 4,000 square metres. Its outer walls use brick laid in patterns that recall woven fabric, which is the first thing most visitors photograph.

Inside, a permanent exhibition space of 400 square metres, with scenography by Christophe Martin, is devoted to Saint Laurent’s work. A second hall of 150 square metres holds temporary exhibitions, so the museum changes between visits. The building also has a research library of some 5,000 volumes, a 130-seat auditorium, a bookshop and a café.

The museum opens at 10:00 and closes at 18:00, with last entry at 17:30, and it is closed on Wednesdays. Your ticket for it is booked on the same official website as the garden.

Getting there from the medina Contents ↑

The garden and the museum sit on Rue Yves Saint Laurent, outside the medina walls on the edge of Guéliz, the new town. From Jemaa el-Fna the walk is longer than it looks on a phone map and runs along busy roads, so most visitors take a petit taxi, the small beige city cab. A few practical taxi habits in Marrakech will save you the usual argument over the fare at the end of the ride.

If you are staying in Guéliz, walking is simpler. Whatever you choose, aim to arrive a little before your entry time rather than exactly on it.

Mistakes that cost visitors their morning Contents ↑

1. Buying a ticket from anyone but the foundation. The foundation’s warning is explicit: tickets from other sellers do not give access.
2. Planning the full visit on a Wednesday. The YSL Museum and the Villa Oasis garden are both closed.
3. Starting with the YSL Museum. It opens at 10:00, two hours after the garden.
4. Booking on the morning itself. The foundation advises booking well ahead to secure your date and time.
5. Expecting a large park. The garden is intimate. Its value is in the detail, so give it time instead of covering ground.

Visiting with a licensed guide Contents ↑

You do not need a guide to enjoy the Jardin Majorelle. A guide earns their place in a different way: by connecting the garden, the Amazigh collection and Saint Laurent’s work into one story, and by fitting the visit into the rest of your day in Marrakech. In Morocco, guiding is a regulated profession, and an official guide carries a licence issued by the Ministry of Tourism.

Keep the two things separate. The guide’s service is the guiding; the ticket is bought by you, on the official website, for the entry time you choose. If you are considering it, our note on how to hire a licensed guide in Marrakech explains how to check a licence before you agree on anything.

Questions visitors ask Contents ↑

Before you leave the riad Contents ↑

Check four things: that your ticket comes from the official website and covers the spaces you want, that your date is not a Wednesday if the YSL Museum is on the list, that you start with the garden, and what time the gates close on your day. The rest is slow walking. If you have time left in the city afterwards, the older Menara gardens show a very different, much more Moroccan idea of a garden.

Last checked: October 2026. Opening times and ticket rules from the official websites of the Fondation Jardin Majorelle and the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech.

Moroccan Travel Trips, operated by PROMYTHIC TOURS SARL AU, offers licensed tourist guide services in Morocco. We are not affiliated with the Fondation Jardin Majorelle and we do not sell tickets.