Folk Art Museum of Acharnes

The Folk Art Museum of Acharnes is a museum in Acharnes, a northern suburb of Athens, Greece. It was founded in 1977 by the local Greek Mountaineering Society, which also formed the Historical and Folklore Association in 1981, to which it bequeathed the museum in 1982. The archaeological part of the collection was then separated from the historical and folklore material and was given to the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Former Minister Melina Mercouri founded for it the Archaeological Museum of Acharnes in a neoclassical building in the central square of Acharnes, which had formerly housed the local City Hall. The same building houses the Historical and Folklore Society and its Folk Art Museum to the present time.[1] [2] [3] [4]

References

  1. "Folk Art Museum of Acharnes, Acharnes". zoohara.com. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  2. "Folk Art Museum of Acharnes". kitgan.com. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  3. "info | Folk Art Museum of Acharnes". shelf3d.com. Retrieved 20 March 2014.

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Coordinates: 38°04′30.85″N 23°44′23.85″E / 38.0752361°N 23.7399583°E / 38.0752361; 23.7399583


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