Museum of the History of the Greek Costume

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Museums Centre National du Costume de Scene Costume Museum of Canada Kastoria Costume Museum Devonshire Collection of Period Costume Korea Museum of Modern Costume Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume Museum of the History of the Greek Costume Portugal National Museum of Costume and Fashion Scotland National Museum of Costume

Museum of the History of the Greek Costume is a special interest museum in Athens, Greece. It was inaugurated by the former Minister of Culture, Melina Mercouri, in 1988 and is part of the Lyceum of Hellenic women, a non profit society founded in 1910.

The museum's collections include Greek traditional costumes, jewellery, reproductions of minoan, classic and Byzantine clothes, as well as porcelain dolls with Greek costumes.

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Textile museums

North America	Bates Mill Cooper-Hewitt Costume Museum of Canada Cotton Museum International Quilt Study Center Lowell National Historical Park Mission Mill Museum Museum of Work and Culture Museum L-A Museum of the American Quilter's Society San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles Shelburne Museum Slater Mill Textile Museum, Washington D.C. Textile Museum of Canada Windham Textile and History Museum

Central America	Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Textiles and Clothing

Europe	Bielsko-Biała Museum Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź Centre National du Costume de Scene Costume Museum (Kastoria) Devonshire Collection of Period Costume Ethnographic Museum (Belgrade) Fashion and Textile Museum Fashion Museum, Bath Helmshore Mills Textile Museum Killerton Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs de Lyon Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture Museum of the History of the Greek Costume Museum of the Romanian Peasant National Museum of Costume National Museum of Costume and Fashion Nottingham Industrial Museum Quarry Bank Mill Queen Street Textile Museum Victoria and Albert Museum Wigan Pier

Asia	Bhutan Textile Museum Calico Museum of Textiles Chojun Textile & Quilt Art Museum Korea Museum of Modern Costume Kurdish Textile Museum Lok Virsa Museum Textile Museum (Jakarta) Yokohama Silk Museum

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Museums in Athens

Archaeological	Acropolis Museum Epigraphical Museum Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art Kerameikos Kanellopoulou Museum National Archaeological Museum Stoa of Attalos Old Acropolis Museum Syntagma Metro Station Archaeological Collection Museum of the Center for the Acropolis Studies Athens International Airport Archaeological Collection

Byzantine and ecclesiastic	Byzantine & Christian Museum

Ethnological/historical	Athens War Museum Drossinis Museum Eleftherios Venizelos Historical Museum Goulandris Natural History Museum Jewish Museum of Greece Museum of the City of Athens National Historical Museum

Folklore	Museum of Greek Folk Art Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments Centre for the Study of Traditional Pottery Museum of the History of the Greek Costume

Art museums/galleries	Benaki Museum Emphietsoglou Gallery Museum Frissiras Museum Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum Municipal Gallery of Athens National Gallery (Athens) National Glyptotheque National Museum of Contemporary Art

Industry/technology	Evgenidio Foundation Hellenic Air Force Museum Hellenic Motor Museum Railway Museum of Athens Electric Railways Museum Technopolis (Gazi)

Education/sports/Special Interests	Athens University Museum Hellenic Children's Museum Hellenic Cosmos Numismatic Museum of Athens Theatrical Museum of Greece Postal & Philatelic Museum of Greece

Museum ships	Georgios Averof VELOS D16 SS Hellas Liberty Olympias HS "Eugenios Eugenides" Evangelistria Cable-laying ship "Thales of Miletus"

List of museums in Greece

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