Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Museum
The Antoine de Saint Exupéry Museum is a museum of air mail in Tarfaya, Morocco. Founded in 2004, it is devoted to author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who lived there for two years, from 1927 to 1929, and found there the inspiration for much of his literary work.Photo: ElWaliElAlaoui, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mackenzie’s Factory and Tarfaya Airport.
Mackenzie’s Factory
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Casamar, also known as Port Victoria and Mackenzie's factory, was a historical coastal fort built in 1882 in Cape Juby near the city of Tarfaya in Morocco, by the founder of the British North West Africa Company, Donald MacKenzie, who positioned there early in 1879 in the goal of trading with commercial caravans coming from Timbuktu and heading to Wadi Noun. Mackenzie’s Factory is situated 660 metres northwest of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Museum.
Tarfaya Airport
Airstrip
Photo: Timothée Audouin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tarfaya Airport is an airstrip, which is situated 1 km northeast of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tarfaya.
Tarfaya
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tarfaya is a coastal Moroccan town, located at the level of Cape Juby, in western Morocco, on the Atlantic coast. It is located about 890 km southwest of the capital Rabat, and around 100 km from both Laayoune and Lanzarote, in the far east of the Canary Islands.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Museum
- Type: Museum
- Also known as: “Antoine de Saint-Exupery Museum”
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Tarfaya Province, Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
27.94388° or 27° 56′ 38″ northLongitude
-12.92483° or 12° 55′ 29″ westOpen location code
7CV9W3VG+H3OpenStreetMap ID
node 5292072075OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q20971131
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Museum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “متحف أنطوان دو سانت إكزوبيري”
- Basque: “Antoine de Saint-Exupéry museoa”
- French: “Musée Antoine de Saint Exupéry”
- French: “musée Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry”
- French: “Musée Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry”
- Hausa: “Gidan Kayan Tarihi Na Antoine de Saint Exupéry”
- Moroccan Arabic: “متحاف انطوان دو سانت إكزوبيري”
- Spanish: “Museo Antoine de Saint-Exupéry”
- Tachelhit: “Tasnniɣt n Unṭwan du Sant Iksupiri”
- Yoruba: “Antoine de Saint-Exupery Museum”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include TARFAYA and Mosque Arrahma.
Nearby Places
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