Folklore Museum of Mykonos /english edition

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INTRODUCTION

Museum Plan F loor plan of the M A I N building

The six ground-floor halls and two courtyards occupy a total area of 320 sq. meters. Next to the old house, there are two, more recent, single-storey buildings: Hall I and Hall VI of the Folklore Museum. The typically irregular, un-plastered stonework of the northern and northwestern walls closely resembles the surviving section of the ancient Kastro wall. ENTRANCE: Locks and Κeys from the past HALL

Ι : Lamps through the centuries; Old furniture and household

wares; Traditional Mykonian costume; Cycladic chairs; escritoires; old weights and measures; Commemorative ceramics and tableware; Stone carvings and epigraphs; Mykonian hand-woven textiles; Lithographs, paintings and icons; Votive offerings; Mykonian earrings HALL

Ι Ι : The education of women in the 19th century; Portraits;

Furniture and household appliances; Musical instruments; Clothing of the 19th century; Stamps and coins H A L L Ι Ι Ι : The 19th century bedroom HALL HALL

Ι V : The Mykonian kitchen V : Manuscript archives and library; Dressing and toilette of the

Mykonian woman; Popular art and ceramics HALL

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V Ι : Mykonos and the sea

MYKONOS FOLKLORE MUSEUM

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