Delinanios Folklore Museum

Delinanios Folklore Museum

Δεληνάνειο Λαογραφικό Μουσείο
Outside view
Established	November 1997
Location	Kastoria, Greece
Coordinates	40.51668016969946°N 21.271845794382607°E / 40.51668016969946; 21.271845794382607
Type	Art museum
Owner	Municipality of Kastoria

Not to be confused with the municipal Folklore Museum of Kastoria.

The Delinanios Folklore Museum (Greek: Δεληνάνειο Λαογραφικό Μουσείο) is a museum in Kastoria, West Macedonia, Greece.

History

The museum opened in November 1997. It was set up by the Progressive Ladies' Association and is housed in a three-storey 19th-century traditional town-house in the Doltso district, which belongs to the municipality of Kastoria and located at 12 Riga Fereou Street.

The purpose of the museum is to highlight cultural heritage, to perpetuate folk culture, and to illustrate Kastorian hospitality.

Exhibits

On the first floor are the everyday room and the summer bedroom and on the second floor the main sitting room and the winter bedroom. They display a rich collection of women's and men's clothing (mainly formal local costumes), underwear, needlework and embroidery, handwoven textiles, and a rich collection of family photographs and women's portraits from Kastorian communities abroad. All the exhibits date to the 19th and early 20th centuries. On the ground floor there is quite a rich collection of domestic utensils.

Gallery

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  View from the interior
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  Local costumes
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  The main sitting room

References

Sources

• This article incorporates text from the corresponding article at the Museums of Macedonia website, commissioned by the Macedonian Heritage foundation, written by Vlasis Vlasidis, and published under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 license.