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Museums at Halkidiki
Folklore Collection at Vavdos
Vavdos is an old mountain village in Halkidiki. It is 40 km from
Thessaloniki and accessed from the Thessaloniki-Poliyiros provincial
road. In the summer of 1997, the Vavdonians' Association in Thessaloniki
and the Folklore and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia and Thrace
put together a folklore collection, which is housed in a room in
the junior school that was designed for the purpose and has its
own separate entrance. The exhibits were donated by the villagers.
The exhibition presents the traditional life of Vavdos through artefacts
and photographs from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
There is a reconstruction of a traditional household, including
a loom in one corner (which clothed the house and its inmates),
clothing (mainly female) in another corner, a sitting-room with
a fireplace, a wash-stand, a cradle, a bed and a wardrobe, a traditional
kitchen, and a cellar containing basic foodstuffs (bread, oil, wine,
and objects connected with them).
There are also artefacts connected with the economic life of the
village: beekeeping, agriculture, sericulture, stockbreeding, forestry,
and, particularly, magnesite mining near the village.
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Beekeeping Tools |
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Interior View of the Traditional House |
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Magnesite Mining Near the Village |
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Vavdos Traditional Costumes |
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