Ethnographic Museum of Folk Art of Macedonia and Thrace

The Folk and Ethnological Museum (Ethnographic Museum of Folk Art of Macedonia and Thrace) is located in Thessaloniki, in a historic building called the Old Government House. The building is famous for its construction in 1906 for Jacob Modiano, the architect was Eli Modiano. In 1913, the four-storey luxury villa was acquired by the municipal authorities of Thessaloniki, becoming the residence of King Kostantin, later the Governor-General, who ruled Macedonia, and finally turned into a military medical school.

The rich collection of the Museum of Ethnography has about 20,000 copies. Most of them are household items, utensils, textiles and embroidery, equipment and tools, furniture, musical instruments, weapons, national clothes and jewelry. In addition, the museum exposition presents a unique library collection, photo archive and audio materials on the history of the region. The subject of research of the Folklore Museum is all the facts, traditions, way of life associated with Thrace and Macedonia.