KERKENNAH ISLAND HERITAGE MUSEUM
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Abdelhamid Fehri, professor of history at the Tunisian university, teacher at Sfax and at the Sorbonne and islander of the Kerkena Islands - that's how he likes to spell his archipelago -, has designed with his own hands, in his family house, this heritage museum. With the help of the villagers, he has gathered together costumes from the past, agricultural tools and medical utensils to reconstruct a slice of life in Kerkena in the past. Wedding ceremonies, circumcisions, fishing parties: in a house with typical architecture from the late 19th and early 20thcenturies , visitors can follow the life of a modest Kerkennian household of that time. The museum also pays tribute to the great men of the island and finally houses the skeleton of the whale that washed up on its beaches in 2003 following the installation of oil platforms.
Workshops are organized to revive ancestral activities.
If, after the theory, you want to move on to the practice, you should know that Abdelhamid offers stays "à la kerkenienne". Lodged in the few rooms that he makes available to travelers, you will participate with him in the agricultural activities of the past (olive picking and fishing trips etc.) and forget the time of a few days the motorized vehicles to return to the cart. A great experience to try and in any case a place not to be missed to better understand these islands and their unique culture.