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Folklore Museum of Limenaria

Coordinates: 40°37′30.500″N 24°34′53.299″E / 40.62513889°N 24.58147194°E / 40.62513889; 24.58147194
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Folklore Museum of Limenaria
The traditional loom
Folklore Museum of Limenaria is located in Aegean Sea
Folklore Museum of Limenaria
Location within Aegean Sea
Folklore Museum of Limenaria is located in Greece
Folklore Museum of Limenaria
Folklore Museum of Limenaria (Greece)
Established1993
LocationLimenaria, Thasos, Greece
Coordinates40°37′30.500″N 24°34′53.299″E / 40.62513889°N 24.58147194°E / 40.62513889; 24.58147194

The folklore museum in Limenaria, Thasos was established in 1993 by To Kastro (The Castle), the Limenaria cultural association. It is housed in the former community office in the centre of the village. Limenaria is a village in the south of Thasos, 40 km from the main town, Limenas.

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Couple's chamber with fireplace and bed

The purpose of the museum is to preserve and promote the local tradition. It therefore displays household artifacts and clothing (embroidery, woven fabrics, traditional costumes, stoves, a loom and its accoutrements, coffee-making equipment), tools of various trades (tailoring, barbering, woodcutting, bee-keeping, hunting, a shoemaker’s and a cobbler’s bench, tools for collecting and transporting resin, a raki still, tools for collecting olives), and tools from the time when the local mines opened. The museum also displays Mr Kyprianos Georgiadis’‘ private collection of books and stationery.

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