Welcome!

Welcome to the new homepage of the Tanje Village Museum, the first private museum of the Gambia. The site will be updated regularly and new pages and pictures will be added in the near future.

Come by and walk through a small open-air village museum, which is made to model the situation of Gambian homes of about a hundred years ago. As a visitor you can enter the houses and have a closer look and feel of the various ways of common household activities and situations. For example: you can visit the young men's house, the kitchen, the family house, the Blacksmith's abode and the garden. Just look around and explore!

Activities:

•  Tanje Village Museum is a unique place where the natural history and traditional culture of The Gambia is presented in an interesting and accessible way to tourists, Gambians, local inhabitants and school groups.

•  Nowhere else you can find out so much about The Gambia, it's birds, insects, fish, plants and trees, and different ethnic groups and their culture.

•  Tanje Village Museum is also dedicated to a research into the uses of plants in medicine, textile dyes and in traditional beliefs.

•  In addition, it promotes traditional craftsmanship: Artisans such as a blacksmith and a weaver have their workshops in the grounds. They demonstrate their craft and sell high quality products to visitors.

•  The exhibitions and nature trail are designed for recreation and education. They complement the Government's Schools Environmental Education Curriculum. On demand, Tanje Village Museum provides tailor-made educational programs for schools - as well as tourist groups.

We also offer accomodations for staying at the museum for a day or more. It is also possible to make a reservation for our Conference Center.