The folklore museum of the Municipality of Salamis is housed, since October 1998, in a spacious hall of the

New Town Hall-Cultural Centre which bears the name of the Salamis ethnographer,

researcher and classics scholar, Peter Fourikis, Manager of the Folk Archive of Athens Academy till 1936.

 

In this museum there are lots of folklore objects of the daily life and local history of Salamis. Particularly impressive is the substantial collection of male and female local costumes which started being accumulated since 1962. The jerkin [zipouni/tzako] collection takes the visitors 300 years back in time, helping them reconstruct the past and appreciate the variety as well as aesthetic perception of the Salamis clothing.

 

In the museum one can also find pieces of furniture from different time periods, looms, utensils, tools of various trades mainly agricultural ones (wooden plows, dried wheat cutters [dougeni], forks [dikouli], handmills etc.) as well as various everyday pottery and bronze objects in original designs. Models of commercial and fishing ships (fast sailboats [trehantiri], trawls etc.) as well as boat watercolors by the folk painter Aristides Glykas and others, remind the visitors of the sailing craft as well as the glory of the sailing life of Salamis.

 

The arms of the Greek Revolution of 1821 (flint-guns, yataghans, pistols, swords etc.) and the silver-buttoned vest [fermeli] of General G.Karaiskakis highlight the glorious history of Salamis.

The museum collections also contain icons of the post-byzantine period, ecclesiastical and hieratic objects (small plates [diskario], pyxs [artoforio], star-shaped metallic objects [asteriskos], grails, holy-water sprinklers [agiastoura], wooden seals, belts, buckles etc.) as well as rare manuscripts of the 18^th and 19^th centuries (dowry contracts, book covers, public documents etc.), abundant photo material since 1850 and paintings.

This museum, together with the adjacent library, operates as an independent government-funded unit under the title “Library-Museum of Folk Art and History of the Municipality of Salamis.” It operates on a daily basis (Monday to Friday) between 9.00-16.00. For afternoon and weekend visits, please call to make an appointment. http://www.salamina-online.com/english/display1.htm

Address: Town Hall, 1 Konstantinou Karamanli Avenue, 18900 Salamis, Greece.,

Tel. & Fax: +30-210 4654180,Email: museum@salamina.gr