Kastoria Museums

Museums in Kastoria.      Museum of Palaeontology in Nostimo:  The Museum of Palaeontology is in Nostimo Village, 24 kilometers from Kastoria houses sea, plant, and animal fossils found during the 90’s in this area, that are dated 20,000,000 years ago.    Byzantine Museum:  The museum is located on Plateia Dexamenis (Dexamenis Square) and houses around 550 artistically outstanding icons from many of the town’s 80 Byzantine churches, each of which is a museum in itself.  The icons date from the 12th to the 17th centuries and are maintained in mint condition; a visit to the museum will help you appreciate the beauty of the Byzantine churches themselves.   Folklore Museum:  This museum is housed in the mansion of the Nerantzi Aivatzis family, built in the 16th or 17th century in Kastoria’s Dolco district.  It is sumptuously furnished and displays ornaments, kitchen utensils, and various tools of that period. (10, Kapetan Lazou St., Kastoria) Costume Museum:  This is found in the Dolco area and is housed in the traditional mansion of the brothers Emmanouil.  Here you can find an important collection of traditional local costumes and a rich collection of coins.

They are not very many but they are very important. The Byzantine Museum, the Kastoria Folklore Museum, the Traditional Costumes Museum, the Delinanio Folklore museum, the Dispilio open-air Neolithic Lake Settlement, each will be allocated one full page, but the work is time consuming and we apologize for not being ready to show everybody all the treasures they hide. Please do visit us from time to time to see this album grow.

• The Kastoria Folklore Museum
• Delinaneio Folklore Museum

Delinaneio Folklore Museum

Delinaneio Folklore Museum: The preserved traditional building housing it.	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: The sign next to the entrance door
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Icons and all kinds of traditional household items on the window-sill	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: A piece of pottery
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: A piece of pottery (Detail)	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Traditional folk household items in the cupboard
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: A magnificent wedding dress This dress was presented to the museum by a Greek old man who spent his life in Brazil and made the long difficult journey back home to deliver it personally.	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Same wedding dress, showing its bottom part
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: The bottom part of the wedding dress shown in the previous photos	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: The same dress held up so it literally unfolds all of its indescribable beauty!
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: A little too many exhibits, but so nice to the eye!	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Hand-embroidered table and bed covers of breath-taking beauty All of the exhibits have been offered by Kastorian people who wish to have their cultural tradition preserved
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: A merchant's log book; Expenses to the left, incoming payments to the right	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Hand-embroidered curtains and covers, along with household utensils
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Embroidered curtains, sewing machines (one for clothes and a second one for furs), one coal-ironing aparatus and a lamp	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: An instrument for leisure time
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Furniture Detail	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Household Utensils
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Household Utensils	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Household Utensils The radio does NOT belong to the exhibits!
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Hanging food protective safe When refrigeration was not yet invented, food was kept for a while in such cage-like safes, for aeration and protection against insects, pets and mice	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: An impressing wardrobe and a hand-made carpet at a drawloom
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Kitchen dresser	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Kitchen utensils Among them a hand driven meat mincing aparatus
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Kitchen Utensils and a Vintage Yarn Winder	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Brightly colored carpet with geometrical patterns
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Hanging lamp	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Hanging Porcelain Lamp (Detail)
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Hand Washing Jar and Bowl	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Smoking hookah (nargileh)
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Lantern	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Phonograph from the beginning of the 20th century
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: A big congregation of Greeks from Kastoria at a wedding in New York in 1920	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Traditonal heating aparatus Only burning coal taken out from the fireplace was used in it
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Around the Fireplace	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Kitchen Utensils at the fireplace An ironing coal-heated device
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Beauty care mirrors and bowl	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Bronze Beauty mirror The two-headed Byzantine eagle, emblem of the Byzantine Empire, carved at the back
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Old Photos of Kastorian women and clothes donated to the museum The names of the donors are written on the pieces of paper on the clothes	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Old clothes in the wardrobe and women's hats (resembling Turkish 'Fessi') lying on the bottom shelf
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Women's Hats (Detail) 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Woman's furcoat hanging at the wardrobe Please notice that the actual fur was put inside the coat, to provide maximum protection against the cold!
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Old photos in an vintage frame	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Oil-lamp holder
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Old photos, a silver tray and a model of the traditional Kastorian flat-bottom 'Karavi', boat for fishing or transportation of people and goods	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Old embroideries where golden string has been used
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Detail of the old embroidery in the previous photo	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Cotton and Silk Crochet Hook work. Various sizes of crochet hooks were used, depending on the dimensions of the "eye" wished for and the thickness of the yarn or thread.
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Cotton and Silk Crochet Hook work (Detail)	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Old glass-ware on hand-made embroidery
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Hand-made embroidery (Not ironed for protection reasons)	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Old water or wine jar covered with a piece of embroidery
Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Same jar uncovered to show its details	Delinaneio Folklore Museum: Vintage table clock

• The Kastoria Folklore Museum
• Delinaneio Folklore Museum