Dar Batha is a former royal palace and now a museum in Fez, Morocco, near Bab Bou Jeloud at the western edge of Fes el-Bali. Sultan Hassan I commissioned it in the late 19th century, and Abdelaziz finished and embellished it. Construction is reported to have run from 1886 to 1907.
The Moorish complex is centered on a rectangular courtyard with zellij tilework and fountains, brick horseshoe arches and painted wooden galleries. The garden follows a riad layout with a central fountain. The landscape architect Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier arranged the garden in 1915.
It became a museum in 1915 and was classified as a national monument in 1924. It reopened in February 2025 as the Al Batha Museum of Islamic Arts, with 6,500 objects.
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