Established on the heights of the city, in an ancient sanctuary, the museum has both an anthropological and an ethnographical dimension to illustrate and explain the crafts as well as the immaterial heritage of a region that is rich in traditions, where the sedentary and the nomadic, the city-dwelling and the rural populations mingle.

In a succession of rooms leading one into the other before ending in the courtyard of a traditional house whose rooms have been converted into exhibition rooms for the various craft activities, the museum leads us into a universe of tribes who lived a nomadic life around the city of Kef, but also into the intimacy of the domestic, professional and spiritual life of the city, which has always been the main town of this region of north-western Tunisia and its centre for economic and religious activities.