Folklore Museum of Afytos

The Folklore Museum of Afytos is located in the seaside village of Afytos on the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece.

Folklore Museum of Afytos

Λαογραφικό Μουσείο Αφύτου
Outside view
Established	1980s
Location	Afytos, Greece
Coordinates	40.09988458851584°N 23.436934481999835°E / 40.09988458851584; 23.436934481999835
Type	Art museum
Founder	Nikos Paralis, Folklore Association of Chalkidiki

History

The museum was established in the 1980s by Nikos Paralis and the local Folklore Association using artifacts donated by the villagers. The museum was housed in a traditional listed building dating to 1889 in the centre of the village, which was donated by the Aletras family.

Exhibits

The folklore collection includes domestic utensils, agricultural implements (for ploughing, sowing, reaping, harvesting), and pottery, which is a craft with a long tradition here. The folklore collection is accompanied by a collection of Karagiozis shadow-theatre puppets owned by the puppet-master Evgenios Spatharis.

Gallery

• 
  Spatharis Shadow Theatre Puppet Exhibition
• 
  Arvanitis Photographic Exhibition 1st
• 
  Arvanitis Photographic Exhibition 2nd

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.