Kitsos Makris Folklore Museum description and photos - Greece: Volos (Topic)

Kitsos Makris Folklore Museum description and photos - Greece: Volos. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Kitsos Makris Folklore Museum.

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The picturesque port city of Volos is an important cultural and tourist center of Greece. Magnificent nature, excellent beaches, many all kinds of entertainment, as well as an abundance of interesting historical and cultural sights of the city and its environs will diversify your vacation and provide a lot of unforgettable impressions.

One of the main attractions of Volos is the Kitsos Makris Folk Art Center. The building in which the museum is located, and most of the unique collection presented in it previously belonged to the famous Greek historian and ethnographer Kitsos Makris.

Two-storey building with an area of 180 sq.m. was built in 1955 by the architect Phillipidis Agiris and is designed in the traditional style of the region. In 1988, after the death of Kitsos Makris, following his will, the relatives donated the collection and the house to the University of Thessaly on the condition that an Ethnographic Museum and Research Center would be organized here.

Household utensils and various tools are presented in the museum exhibition , ceramics, jewelry, fragments of wall paintings, paintings, prints, icons (including post-Byzantine ones) and other church relics, clothing, embroidery, furniture, musical instruments and much more. Most of the exhibits are collected from different parts of the Pelion Peninsula and mainly date from the 18-19th centuries. Among the most valuable and interesting exhibits, it is worth highlighting the works of the artist Theophilos Hadzimikhail, the magnificent frescoes of Athanasios Pagonis and the works of Nikolos Christopulus.

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