That our children know other cultures can be a matter of traveling to get in touch with them directly, which is not always easy, and more so if we talk about remote tribes. There are also more comfortable and economical ways of approaching other realities. The "Orinoco: trip to a lost world" exhibition at the Gaiás Center Museum offers family visits so that children know a cultural tradition on the other side of the ocean.
Explorers, nature, millenary ethnic groups, magic ... all this children can discover in a very playful and attractive exhibition for all audiences with which to become an explorer, enter the Amazon jungle and meet other civilizations, exotic landscapes and other forms of relating to the environment.
Every Saturday, children and adults can discover in the company of a very special guide the customs of the twelve ethnic groups that inhabit the Alto Orinoco, their crafts and their ancestral knowledge in a tour specially designed to enjoy with the family.
In addition, children will have the opportunity to become authentic indigenous when they enter the Tepuy Camp, an area with didactic activities in which to give free rein to their imagination.
All a tribute to the Amazonian tribes that they will not forget, and that they are having as a complement different workshops carried out in the Museum (last Saturday I played an indigenous architecture workshop). Stay tuned for the agenda.
The Orinoco exhibition: travel to a lost world is the most important sample of ethnic art in Latin America belonging to the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. There you can see a wide selection of utilitarian objects from each of the indigenous groups, more than 1,500 pieces collected during fifty years of exploration.
It will be a different way of approaching masks, basketry, body ornaments, musical instruments, plumarios, canoes, paddles and fishing instruments, objects of everyday use and magical-religious ... A lost world that shows its respect for nature and that we have to take into account to prevent it from disappearing precisely because of the little care of the environment.
Remember, in the City of Culture of Santiago de Compostela, at the Gaiás Center Museum, every Saturday until January 11, 2014, children can enjoy family visits to visit the Orinoco, a lost world. We can choose morning (11:30) or afternoon (17:30), there is no excuse to miss it.
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