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Villa Zapakara is an interactive children's museum (Villa Zapakara is founded in november 2009 by Mirjam Marks and Daphne Bruijne) Children’s museum ‘Villa Zapakara’ is not a place where one has to view works of art or historical objects which are forbidden to touch. In the interactive exhibition, children are put to work. Villa Zapakara is a place where children are given the opportunity to enter a whole new world. This is done literally through exhibitions about contemporary cultures, figuratively through films and workshops like music, dance and other creative expressions from around the world.

For the exhibition part Villa Zapakara has teamed up with ‘Tropen Museum Junior’ in Amsterdam. For over 30 years, they develop beautiful interactive exhibitions for children. The aim of Villa Zapakara is to give all the children of Suriname a chance to experience these exhibitions themselves. The first exhibition in Villa Zapakara, ‘Palace Secrets’, deals with the Ashanti in Ghana. The second exhibition is ‘Star in the City’, this exhibition is about daily life in Bombay. On august 3rd 2013 Villa Zapakara will open her doors for “The Qi of China’ exhibition, this exhibition is about modern life China. The entire exhibition and the method have been donated by Tropen Museum Junior in Amsterdam.

Meanwhile over 37000 children and their caretakers have enjoyed the exhibition, workshops and films at Villa Zapakara. An important target of Villa Zapakara are elementary school children. School classes visit us to participate in the interactive Ghana Tour and the Bombay Tour. Schools get free teaching material in advance, so the teachers can prepare the children for this educational experience.

“Stichting Villa Zapakara voor Kind & cultuur” ("Foundation for Child and Culture Villa Zapakara”) 'is a non-commercial, educational foundation. It has received financial support from the Dutch Embassy in Paramaribo. A long list of local companies has also enabled us to set up the building and exhibition area. On the website www.villazapakara.com all donors and sponsors are listed.