Ju/'Hoansi-San Little Hunter's Museum

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The Ju/'Hoansi-San Little Hunter's Museum is the first Living Museum of Namibia. It is a cultural highlight in Namibia as well as a good example for a sustainable development. The museum gives visitors an interesting insight into the life of the friendly San. It is an authentic open-air museum where guests can learn a lot about the traditional culture and the original way of living of the San. As such, inhabitants at this museum demonstrates dance, music, how the cooking and some of their cultural ways. On dancing and music, there are instruments held at the museum, these include drums, percussions and many others. Some of these instruments were used by their forefathers on such activities.

The museum demonstrates and describes everything with great dedication and the guide translates into English. Almost every offered programm is interactive, because it is also great fun for the Ju/'Hoansi when the visitors try to shoot an arrow, experience the special Ju/'Hoansi rope skipping or try to sing an original song.

The Living Museum of the Ju/'Hoansi-San was initiated by the Namibian tour guide Werner Pfeifer and the teacher Ghau N!aici from Grashoek. Since July 2004, the Ju/'Hoansi run their museum completely on their own. The Living Museum - the Ju/'Hoansi call it /Xao-o Ju/'Hoansi-Ga (the life of the Ju/'Hoansi) - consists of several huts, but actually this is only the surrounding of the open-air Museum: the San focus on showing their original lifestyle. They present the old, almost forgotten culture in traditional dresses in the midst of their reconstructed "nomad-village" from the ancient days.

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Ju/'Hoansi-San Little Hunter's Museum
Profile added by Ano Shumba on 22 Oct 2015
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