The Tanga Tanga Children's Museum in Sucre promotes cultural awareness
and understanding among Sucre's multi-ethnic youth while stimulating and
contributing to their intellectual development. The Museum will serve approximately
28,000 Spanish and Quechua-speaking visitors annually from the City of Sucre
and surrounding communities and will offer hands-on interactive exhibits on Bolivian culture, health, environment,
science and technology.
The Museum offers both children and adults interactive theater inspired
by world mythologies and cultures whose objective is to create new stories
that express the original teachings of particular ethnic groups presented
in universally understandable language. Representing diverse cultural and
socio-economic experiences, visiting children will be able to assimilate
new knowledge and be encouraged to use their imagination to create their
own reality, have fun and learn to know and respect their own culture and
beliefs as well as those from different backgrounds.
Through its ongoing teacher training programs, the style and content of
the Tanga Tanga Children's Museum serve as a resource and training ground
for urban and rural public school teachers in the use of new concepts in
interactive education.
This initiative was made possible by the very generous support of the Municipality
of Sucre and the Sucre Local Potable Water and Sewage Company (ELAPAS) which
donated approximately 1,000 square meters of land and complimentary structure
in Sucre's La Recoleta historic district. Additionally, the Foundation,
with a donation from Plan International/Sucre, has acquired an additional
7,000 square meters of adjoining land. The Tanga Tanga Children's Museum
will include a children's library, a gift/handicrafts shop, a cafeteria,
a nature and adventure park, outdoor theater, conference and meeting facilities
and much more.
The Tanga Tanga Children's Museum staff will continually work in rural and
urban areas creating and testing new interactive exhibits and gathering
input from teachers, children and parents on educational needs and processes.
The Tanga Tanga Children's Museum in Sucre counts on the specific financial
support of Plan International/ Sucre, the Dutch Government , UNICEF, CESO
and the Quipus Cultural Foundation's Endowment Fund, made possible by a
debt-swap mechanism involving USAID and PROCOSI, benefiting national child-survival
activities.
Senior Staff
José Cabanach
Coordinator
Jose Cabanach Padrosa, Coordinator of the Tanga Tanga Children's Museum, studied theology at the Faculty of San Francisco de Borja in Barcelona, Spain. A professional in communication with specialties in the areas of radio and film, he is currently on the faculty of the University of San Francisco Xavier in Sucre and has been director and chef of programming of various radio stations throughout Bolivia. Including the cites of La Paz, Sucre, Santa Cruz, Tarija and Chulumani. Mr. Cabanach, has in addition worked closely with the Guaraní ethnic group as a programming consultant in communication and radio.