The Folk Art Museum

The Folk Art Museum

This is housed in the lovely, refurbished Old Harbour office on the waterfront. This museum contains a wide variety of exhibits from different periods which exemplify the island???s popular art and illustrate its past. There are abundant examples of which express the culture of the island including clay plates from Agiassos and Mandamados with scenes from daily life, bowls. pitchers, wooden mortars, cheese-molds, chests with highly artistic carvings, pistols, scimitars, swords, muskets, lamps, earrings, fabulous hand-towels, local male and female costumes, paintings by Theophilos and more. It’s on

Kontouriotou Street
near the square in the main part of the port.?

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