Tiskiwin Museum, 1990-2022
“Intrigued or conquered by a shape or pattern, I buy an object… Then I discover another object that resembles it. Then, I let these two pieces talk to each other and I listen to them to see what they have to say to me” (Bert Flint)
Over the span of more than six decades, Bert Flint journeyed through the Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains, the Sahara, and the Sahel, amassing an extraordinary collection. Part of this collection was displayed at the Tiskiwin Museum, located across two houses in the medina of Marrakesh.
In 1976, Flint purchased the first of these buildings as his residence. Four years later, in 1980, he opened a clothing store called “Tiskiwin,” named after a traditional dance from the High Atlas region. The dance depicts men with horns, or “tiskt,” symbolizing the mountain goat. Flint began to showcase pieces from his collection in a room on the upper floor. In 1987, Flint expanded his exhibition space by acquiring an adjacent building, and in 1990, he officially opened the museum to the public.
In 2006, Flint donated both the buildings and his entire collection to Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakesh. Following his passing in 2022, the museum closed, and the future remains uncertain. However, to preserve his legacy, the website tiskiwin.com, launched in 2014, has continued into 2023 as an online museum (tiskiwin.wdro.net), making the collection accessible to a global audience.
