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In 1973, the teachers and kindergarten teachers of the Didymoteicho region, anxious to save the folklore objects of the place, took the initiative to collect them and create a Folklore Museum.
Their first move, with the help of the then Inspector of Secondary Education, was to send a circular to the schools to donate to the museum the folklore items they had in their possession and to collect others. Some were collected from donations from residents and others were purchased. All this was brought together and the museum was housed in the neoclassical Hatzirvasani building, built in 1900 (corner of Vatatzis and Kolokotronis), a building which was purchased by the Ministry of Culture. Boards have always been made up of teachers. The Folklore Museum includes in its collections traditional costumes of the region, other items of clothing, embroidered and woven layers of the house as well as traditional jewelry, church items, icons and utensils, agricultural tools and weaving tools, tools of the traditional artisans of the region: carpenter, blacksmith, cobbler, dyer of clothes and textile fibers. Also on display are the traditional distiller for the preparation of raki and an old wine shop register as well as tools from an old printing press. Furthermore, two marble reliefs depicting the "Thracian horseman", the hero of the Thracians, are the Museum's oldest acquisitions. The archival material at the Museum's disposal is also noteworthy, which comes from donations and includes theater programs, exam programs from the schools of Zappeio in Adrianople (1882) and various other printed materials and manuscripts. two marble reliefs depicting the "Thracian horseman", the hero of the Thracians, are the oldest acquisitions of the Museum. The archival material at the Museum's disposal is also noteworthy, which comes from donations and includes theater programs, exam programs from the schools of Zappeio in Adrianople (1882) and various other printed materials and manuscripts. two marble reliefs depicting the "Thracian horseman", the hero of the Thracians, are the oldest acquisitions of the Museum. The archival material at the Museum's disposal is also noteworthy, which comes from donations and includes theater programs, exam programs from the schools of Zappeio in Adrianople (1882) and various other printed materials and manuscripts.
Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou