On January 14, 2020, Morocco's National Photography Museum was inaugurated in Rabat inside the repurposed Fort Rottembourg, a nineteenth-century coastal fortress in the Ocean district. The museum was created by the National Foundation of Museums and opened with Sourtna, an exhibition devoted to Moroccan photographic voices and installations that activated the historic site. Contemporary reports stressed both the architectural transformation and the public-cultural aim: placing a photography museum in a neighborhood beyond the usual elite museum circuit. As an institution dedicated specifically to photography, it expanded Morocco's museum network beyond archaeological, ethnographic, and fine-art collections, giving the medium a national platform for exhibitions, acquisitions, and later programs on Moroccan and international photographic practice.
The opening gave photography a dedicated national museum platform in Morocco.