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Museums at Halkidiki
History and Folklore Museum at Arnaia
Arnaia is a picturesque little town
in Halkidiki, 58 km from Thessaloniki and 37 km from Poliyiros.
The museum, which belongs to the municipality, is behind the National
Bank in the town centre. It is housed in a two-storey town-house
of the eighteenth century, which was owned by Konstandinos Katsangelos
and used to house the folklore collection put together by the Arnaia
Cultural and Educational Association. It has been renovated recently
and opened as a museum in the summer of 1999.
The purpose of the museum is to display artefacts of the popular
culture of Arnaia and the surrounding area.
As one enters the building, the first room contains typical examples
of the architectural heritage of Arnaia, and the second traditional
folk instruments. Apart from this, on the ground floor there is
a display of agricultural implements (for sowing, reaping, threshing),
bread-making equipment (millstones, kneading boards, proving troughs,
bread-stamps), bee-keeping equipment (hives, frames, an extractor
for centrifuging the honey from the cells, skeps), carpentry equipment
(vices, moulds for rooftiles and bricks, files, planes). On the
mezzanine floor is the wherewithal for preparing and serving coffee,
and on the first floor weaving equipment (a loom, a distaff, cards,
a spinning wheel, carding machines), and tools and utensils for
everyday use (cooking utensils, receptacles for carrying water,
cauldrons, washing troughs, a brazier).
One particularly important exhibit is the Arnaia fire-engine, which
is 200 years old and based on the force-pump invented by Ktesibios
(285-220 bc). Its basic operating principle is the piston, and it
consists of bronze receptacles fitted with two pistons, between
which the water passes and is stored in the receptacles.
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