Us In Our Homes In The Old Days - Ioannis Atsonios Folk Arts and Crafts Exhibition

This is an old house built in the traditional Sifnos architectural style and is laid out and decorated in the manner of most Sifnian homes in bygone days, with traditional furniture, hand-crafted items, framed photographs, engravings, and lithographs, mirrors, opaline oil lamps, pottery, old hand sewing machine, a gramophone from the 1900s, a cradle dating from 1880 brought from Constantinople, wooden shelves from 1880, formal dress clothes hand embroidered in gold, old records, traditional costumes, a radio from the era between the wars, old newspapers, and nuptial agreements, among other items of interest from daily life in former times. Also on display are the personal and official service documents of the Artemonas poet Ioannis Gryparis, as well as a couch belonging to the poet.

The exhibition is under the management of the Cultural Association of Sifnos and has been in operation since 2008.

It is open to the public from July 15th to September 15th in the evenings (19:00-23:00).

Source: www.sifnos.gr