The Association
 
  Creation of the association for the safeguard and the radiance of the majorelle garden In 1919 Jacques Majorelle settles in Marrakech, in 1924 he acquires a land outside of the ramparts of the city, where he makes build his workshop in 1937. This whole will become the Majorelle garden. Since its acquirement and its restoration 20 years ago by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, this garden also shelters an Islamic art museum, where their personal collection is exposed. The association for the safeguard and the radiance of the Majorelle garden was created on January 1st 2001, with an aim of safeguarding the ecological, historical and cultural inheritance that the Majorelle garden and Islamic art museum represent
A completely restored garden
 
 

In March 2000 Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé decided to restore the Majorelle garden by endowing it with important means. Thus, for 9 months some teams installed automatic irrigation systems which allow a reduction of 40% of the water expenses. Besides its economic and ecological interest, this system permit to effectively control the water distribution according to the hours of the day and specific's needs for each plant. To remain faithful to the mind of Jacques Majorelle, real in love with the exotic plants, the collection grew rich by several rare species, several botanical curiosities have been imported of the 5 continents. Thus, the flora of the Majorelle garden could pass from 135 species in 1999, to 300 species on this day.

Goals and objectives of the foundation
 
 

Association (with non-lucrative goal), for the safeguard and the radiance of the Majorelle garden, proposes to be devoted to cultural and scientific activities in the total respect of the laws, institutions and traditions of the kingdom of Morocco. It aims to ensure the safeguard, the maintenance of the garden and the museum and to support the knowledge of landscape art by supporting any suitable initiative to develop a culture of the garden art. It hopes for that to draw up cooperation reports with any person, association and foundation, having the same objectives on the local, national and international level. The achievement of these objectives is divided into four points: the edition on any support, for a better promotion of the garden art, safeguard of the landscape inheritance of Marrakech, the participation in the scientific and cultural demonstrations around the topic of the garden and Islamic art ( expositions, colloquies…), the formation in the field of the garden art and landscape creation ( workshops, trainings)

 
A new team for the reception and interview
 
 

The association for the safeguard and the radiance of the Majorelle garden, lends a particular interest to the visitors reception. It has just published for this purpose a booklet in three languages (Arab, French, English)distributed to the entry of each visitor, and a shop exposing products drifted of the garden and the Islamic art museum will soon open its doors. Besides the reception, a team of 20 gardeners work daily to the maintenance of the garden, of the fountains and basins.

 

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