We recently spent a morning at the Village Museum in Dar. It is a great museum and we really enjoyed our time there. The museum features a collection of dwellings that indigenous tribes all around Tanzania build. There are over 120 tribes in the country and we learned about many of them at this museum. They did not have examples from each tribe – otherwise we’d have been there all week! 🙂
We loved that we could go inside each one and look around. It was fun to imagine that we lived there…And here’s where the girls would sleep, and where I would sleep as the first wife…
Lily had fun reading the signs. At each house, we learned about the tribe’s location, social structure, what they ate and how they prepared it, unique traditions and how their dwellings reflected all those things.
Many houses had displays inside with items like cooking utensils and cookware, beds, farming and hunting equipment, musical instruments and items used in celebrations.
When we finished walking around, we watched a traditional dance show. I don’t remember what tribe these dancers were from but we really enjoyed the music and dancing.
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