Villa des Arts Casablanca
A 1934 art deco villa converted into a contemporary arts centre — the most serious gallery space in Casablanca, showing Moroccan and international contemporary art in rooms that were once the private salons of a French industrialist. The building is half the experience: curved walls, terrazzo floors, a garden with a 1930s swimming pool that has never been filled since.
A contemporary art museum in a restored Art Deco villa in the Parc de la Ligue Arabe. The Villa des Arts is one of the few cultural institutions in Casablanca that consistently programmes exhibitions — Moroccan contemporary art, photography, design, occasional international shows.
The building is a 1930s villa with the clean lines and geometric ornament of Casablanca's Protectorate-era architecture. The garden setting, inside the city's largest park, gives it an atmosphere absent from most Casablanca cultural spaces.
The exhibitions rotate every few months. The permanent collection is small but includes work by Moroccan modernists — painters who bridged European abstraction and Islamic geometric tradition in the decades after independence. Free or nominal entry. Open Tuesday to Sunday.
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