Casablanca collects culture the way it collects concrete: fast, layered and unlabelled. Three days of orientalist poster collections, Jewish heritage, Bauhaus-meets-zellij facades and slaughterhouses reborn as galleries.
A 1934 Art Deco villa beside Parc Murdoch, run free of charge by the ONA Foundation. Three floors of rotating Moroccan contemporary shows plus works by Gharbaoui and Cherkaoui. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 09:30–19:00, closed Mondays.
Paul Tournon's 1930 white cathedral, deconsecrated since 1956 and now an empty concrete cage of Gothic verticality and Art Deco geometry. Climb the tower for the Parc de la Ligue Arabe panorama. Open daily 10:00–18:00.
Morocco's first private museum, in a 1940s Art Deco townhouse. Slaoui's collection of orientalist travel posters, Fez ceramics, Berber jewellery and Majorelle originals. Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00–18:00.
A 1930 Art Deco picture palace on Rue Mohamed El Qorri where Édith Piaf and Josephine Baker performed. Still a working cinema with its original balcony, neon marquee and stucco lobby — tickets run 30–50 MAD.
The only Jewish museum in the Arab world, in a former orphanage in the Oasis district. Synagogue interiors, embroidered Fez costumes, Torah scrolls and photographs of the 250,000-strong community. Monday to Friday 10:30–17:00.
A white-cube space in leafy Gauthier run by the Bouzoubaa sisters, showing the Casablanca School generation — Melehi, Belkahia, Chabâa — alongside younger Moroccan painters. Free entry, Monday to Saturday 10:00–19:00.
A 1922 modernist slaughterhouse in working-class Hay Mohammadi, saved by artists in 2009 and now a raw cultural factory: graffiti walls, dance residencies, Boultek music rehearsals and photography shows under steel trusses.
Zaha Hadid Architects' curving white concrete opera house on Place Mohammed V, with a 1,800-seat main hall and 600-seat modular theatre. Programme spans Andalusian orchestras, Gnawa nights and contemporary dance.
The 1920s 'new medina' designed by French architects in neo-Moorish style: arcaded shopfronts, the royal Cheikh Zaydan mosque, and the Mahkama's 64 rooms of carved cedar, zellij and stucco courtrooms.
The 1917 covered market on Boulevard Mohammed V, entered through a Moorish arch. Fishmongers slide sea bream and urchins across tiled counters and the stallholders behind will grill your pick at plastic tables for a few dirhams.
The pre-colonial old town behind Portuguese-era walls: Chleuh craftsmen, the Sidi Bousmara shrine, and the 18th-century Sqala bastion with its cannons facing the Atlantic. Smaller and scruffier than Fez, and entirely unstaged.
A converted factory in Aïn Sebaâ run by Fondation Touria & Abdelaziz Tazi — hip-hop battles, contemporary dance classes, street-art workshops and screenings that draw Casablanca's under-30 scene rather than tourists.