Folk Art Museum of Acharnes
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The Folk Art Museum of Acharnes is a museum
in 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.
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
in Athens
Athens
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, Greece
Greece
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. 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
Melina Mercouri
Melina Mercouri , born as Maria Amalia Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer and politician.As an actress she made her film debut in Stella and met international success with her performances in Never on Sunday, Phaedra, Topkapi and Promise at Dawn...
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.
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- Municipality of Acharnes (in Greek) Η Ι.Λ.Ε.Α. ιδρύθηκε το έτος 1981, με πρωτοβουλία τον Ελληνικού Ορειβατικού Συλλόγου Αχαρνών. Ήδη από το 1977, ο Ορειβατικός Σύλλογος, είχε ιδρύσει και οργανώσει, Λαογραφικό Μουσείο, το οποίο παράδωσε στην Ι.Λ.Ε.Α., μετά την ίδρυσή της, το 1982... Transl. The Historical and Folklore Society of Acharnes (ILEA) was founded in 1981, by the Greek Mountaineering Association of Acharnes. Already, since 1977 the Association had founded and organized a Folklore Museum, which it ceded to ILEA. // Το πρώτο Δ..Σ. της Ι.Λ.Ε.Α.... χώρισε το αρχαιολογικό από το ιστορικό - λαογραφικό υλικό, παρέδωσε το αρχαιολογικό υλικό στο Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού, με τον όρο να ιδρύσει αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο. Η τότε Υπουργός Πολιτισμού, Μελίνα Μερκούρη απεδέχθη τους όρους... Από τότε, έως σήμερα, η Ι.Λ.Ε.Α. και το αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Αχαρνών, συστεγάζονται σε νεοκλασικό κτίριο... Transl. The first administration of ILEA... separated the archaeological from the historic-folklore material and ceded the archaeologiocal to the Ministry of Culture under the terms that an archaeological museum would be founded. The then Minister of Culture, Melina Merkouri accepted the terms... From then till today the ILEA and the Archaeolocical Museum of Acharnes are co-housed in a neoclassical building...
- City of Athens On the Archaeological Museum of Acharnes
- East Attica Prefecture (in Greek) This site has both museums in one naming, i.e. Folklore and Archaeological Museum of Acharnes (Λαογραφικό & Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Αχαρνών)