Musee Dar Khadija in small town of Matmata
Musee Dar Khadija, Matmata in Tunisia showcases the original and traditional troglodyte dwelling style building in south Tunisia.
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This Berber Musem is located nearby well known Star Wars site (look at nearby waymarks) in typical troglydyte house. These houses are designed to be cold in summer and warm in winter using the Earth as a natural insulator. Rooms exhibits various types of troglodyte houses. For example number of caves depends on how rich a family is. Many caves are shared by three or four generations of the same family, with the kids and the old people sleeping in the most uncomfortable looking places. In olden times the grandparents used to write the history of the family into the walls.
There is storeroom which had vast barrels for storing food, the kitchen with it's bread making grinder and the chimney for letting the smoke up and the bedroom, which looked very nice. Another room has models in the dress of participants in a berber wedding. The man and woman do ot see each other until their wedding day, and she travelled to the wedding on a camel chaise.
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