Northern Morocco had a Mediterranean Roman life long before the Arab conquest, and the Archaeological Museum of Tétouan is where most of the surviving evidence has been gathered. Founded in 1940 under the Spanish Protectorate and housed in the Ensanche a short walk from Place Moulay el-Mehdi, the museum holds one of the most important Roman and pre-Roman collections in the country. The central patio is the headline — its walls lined with mosaics from the Roman city of Lixus, including the well-known Three Graces, Bacchic scenes, and sea creatures.

Two floors organise the rest of the collection. The ground floor covers Punic, Mauretanian, and Roman ceramics, bronzes, lamps, coins, and daily-life pieces, largely excavated at Tamuda — the Roman-Mauretanian site just outside the city. The upper floor holds funerary stelae, additional coin collections, and a small numismatic display. Labels are bilingual Arabic-Spanish with some French; the curatorial logic is chronological and easy to follow without a guide. Sixty to ninety minutes covers it comfortably.

For visitors planning to see the Tamuda ruins themselves (a ten-minute drive away), the museum is the better visit first: the site has been stripped of most portable finds and everything of value sits here, so seeing the mosaics and bronzes first turns the ruins into something you can actually read. Open weekday mornings, closed Tuesdays. Arrive around 10am to have the mosaic patio quiet before school groups and tour coaches. Combining the museum with the Tamuda site as a half-day works well; alternatively, pair with a Place Moulay el-Mehdi coffee stop and an Ensanche architecture walk.