Folklore Museum of Kastoria

The Folklore Museum of Kastoria, in the northern Greek metropolis of Kastoria, is housed in one of the metropolis’s oldest townhouses, the Nerandzis-Aivazis house close to the lake. The museum has been working considering the fact that 1972, and is run with the aid of Harmony a tune and literary society. The -storey premises have been constructed between the 16th or 17th centuries, and survived in such appropriate situation that the museum changed into able to open with out restoration.

All the original fixtures continues to be present. On the ground floor, there are 3 cellars: the wine cellar incorporates the wine press, wine barrels and baskets for the grapes; some other stored pickles, oil, olives, preserves, butter, and cheese, and the third contained cereals, pulses and flour. In the latter, pies and bread had been made. Wood and coal for heating had been also stored on the floor floor. In the courtyard are a nicely, a boat safe haven and a kitchen.

There are own family residing rooms on the first ground one each for summer and wintry weather, the former also used as a fur workshop. It has the first stitching machine for furs which got here from France in 1884. On the second one floor are two bedrooms one for husband and wife and the other for the kids and sitting-rooms, one small and the opposite large the primary reception room, used on gala's and holidays.