Petrokerasa Folklore Museum

Administrative Region : Central Macedonia
Regional unit : Thessaloniki

The museum is located in the village of Petrokerasa, Thessaloniki regional unit, Greece. It is situated in the highlands north of the Chalkidiki peninsula.

It was founded in 1976 aiming to preserve and perpetuate the folk tradition and folk heritage. The museum has four rooms, in which are displayed 750 objects exclusively from Petrokerasa. The first room has weapons (flintlocks, powder magazines, sabres), a large Byzantine oil jar, and the documents granting the village the privilege of hosting a piece of the True Cross on Palm Sunday every year without fail since 1767. In the second room there is a complete loom with all its accessories, together with a variety of woven textiles produced in the village. The third room has all the traditional costumes from the village, men’s and women’s, contemporary underwear; and all the old ecclesiastical books, codices, and manuscripts relating to the history of the village. In the fourth room, lastly, are displayed the tools of various trades and occupations: tile-making, carpentry, hunting, beekeeping, viniculture, horse-grooming, and, of course, agriculture. Of particular note are a traditional wooden ard or scratch plough and a metal plough.

Apart from the museum itself, it is also worth visiting the beeswax workshop, where the villagers still use the traditional hand-operated device for extracting honey and wax.

Gallery

Agricultural implements

A traditional wooden plough

Traditional Costumes

The traditional beeswax workshop

Sources

The original version of this article was taken from the corresponding article at the Museums of Macedonia website, commissioned by the Macedonian Heritage foundation, written by Vlasis Vlasidis, and published under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 license.

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