Mon, Apr 20, 2020
It is housed in the Iatrou mansion one of the most beautiful buildings in Halkidiki, near the central square of Arnea. Benefactors were the local residents who offered valuable and rare items of everyday life and family heirlooms. The museum exhibits farming tools, beekeeping items and carpentry, tools of bread and coffee preparation, weaving equipment, rich photography material, the first radio of the village from 1941, as well as a fire pump 200 years old.
The need to establish and operate a Historical and Folklore Museum in Arnea in order to save and to disseminate its cultural wealth met with the warm and immediate reception of the local community. This reaction manifested itself rapidly by offering objects of folklore tradition from already existing collections, but also in isolation.
Great emphasis has also been placed on the photographic material from the village life in the past, which adorns every corner of the museum. In the tallest room of the mansion there is also an old-fashioned room with all the furniture and the objects that existed in such rooms in the traditional houses of Arnaia. Finally there is the possibility of showing films about the history of the place and the venue of educational programs.