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Dar Cherait Museum

  • January 21, 2002
  • Rated 4 of 5 by rhiannon1968 from locarno, Switzerland
Dar Cherait Museum

The museum, unlike other museums - is set in an authentic old Tunisian home of a middle class family - well, more like a palace actually: middle class people used to live more luxuriously than we do.

Inside the museum you will find

the Patio the central courtyard - with galleries, ceramics and stuccos - the real heart of the home

the Kharia is the exit of the Palaces' gates is where people were welcomed

the erudites' room was the study room of a prominent man (maybe a religious man or a lawyer) - you can see bookstands, ink pots, penholders and old parchments

the notables' rooms are rooms that were used by men only - for working of course but also for playing chess or smoking

the kitchen everything used to be cooked on an open fire - what's to see here is the selection of copporware and cooking utensils: lots of them and in deifferent sizes and shapes

the bride's room is possibly the best ornated of all the rooms: even gold-leaf was used. All objects - from the tables to the jewel boxes - are ornated with silver filigree, mother-of-pearl and tortoise shell.

El Kouttab is a small Koranic School and it is quite sober: there's mainly books and prayer mats

the hamman is the Turkish bath. It's devided in the three traditional zones: sweating room, refreshing and resting room.

the working ladies' room is the plce where the women used to meet and spend thir time, talking and working (for example making clothes and carpets)

the art gallery there's a collection of paintings by well-known Tunisian painters - often portraying scenes of daily life

the glass room is meant to be untypical: there's a stained-glass ceiling from Damascus, Venice, Bohemia, Beykoz.. possibly showing that the family used to trade with distant countries a lot.

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