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Santorini Lignos Folklore Museum |
The popular tradition of Santorini is maintained live in an island that due to the enormous tourist growth faces henceforth the danger of losing its physiognomy -in Kontohori of Fira, in the basement that was built approximately one and a half century ago. There, where today is accommodated the Folklore Museum of the island that deserves to be visited by the traveler who will be found in "Rigissa of Aegean". Founder of the Museum is the lawyer and journalist (editor of the newspaper "Thiraika News") Mr. Emmanuel A. Lignos.
Old laboratories of ironsmiths, carpenters, gravimeters, shoemakers as well as an authentic old wine factory, a gallery with work of local artists and various important documents and books are some of what can the visitor see who will found in the Folklore Museum of Santorini, that for a few moments will feel that he realizes a travel in time.
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It is housed in “Megaro Gyzi”, one of the few 17th century old family mansions with special architectural interest and beauty, in Fira Santorini (near the cable-car entrance). The Museum hosts six permanent exhibitions.
 Megaro Gyzi In particular, an exhibition of authentic engravings with maps, landscapes and dresses of the Cycladic islands from the 15th until the 19th century, an exhibition of old theraic public and private historical manuscripts from late 16th to early 19th century, a collection of art paintings with Santorini as theme by well-known Greek artists, a collection of old photographs of scenic Santorini from 1930 until 1956 and a collection of Santorini΄s strata.
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The Museum of Prehistoric Thira |
The museum is located in Fira , next to the main bus terminal. Famous for its exhibits from the Akrotiri excavations, it is host of approx. 500 exhibits. Specifically, all these archaeological treasures, which demonstrate that the southernmost island in the Cyclades was a major centre, mainly during the 18th and 17th centuries B.C., come from the excavations carried out by the Archaeological Society of Athens in Akrotiri, from the excavations of the German Archaeological Institute in the area of Potamos and from excavations carried out by the 21st Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities for the Cyclades and Samos in different areas of Thera. There are also exhibits provided from other collections and donations. The Museum of Prehistoric Thera is on 3 levels. The permanent exhibition is housed on the third level (second floor) and covers 600 m2. The second level (on the 1st floor) was judged to be the most suitable area for temporary exhibitions, making it possible to exhibit the many movable finds which are kept in the museum's storerooms. These storerooms, together with the restoration facilities comprise the first level ( ground level).
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Traditional Village 'Vanishing Santorini' |
In the village Pyrgos of Santorini traditional buildings are restored and maintained, dedicated to the presentation of passed times of Santorini, of "Vanishing Santorini".
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WINE MAKER |
Built in 1895, the traditional complex greets the visitors, who may admire the whole process of wine production, from the grape harvest and methods of wine making to the storage of wine in large, old, oak barrels. The interest is also attracted by the representation of distillation and production of tsikoudia, "raki", known for its strong taste.
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The Museum of Wine in Santorini is located in the road to Kamari and is the only natural underground Wine Museum that functions in Greece and impresses the entire history of Santorini’s wine with representations of effigies, combination of audiovisual effects and automatic conducted tour. After 19 years of continuous effort, the wine factory "VolcanWines" of George Koutsogiannopoulos, in Vothona of Santorini achieved to record with the best possible way all the phases of wine production. In-depth of six meters under the surface of the ground the Museum has total length more than 300 meters with corridors and rooms that remind a labyrinth.
The exhibits of the Museum are dated from 1660 until 1970 and its decor refers to the 17th – 18th century.
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