The Museum is located next to the Library and Cinema building and was inaugurated in August 1988. It was built according to the traditional residential standards of Agiasos (tiled roof, chipped stones, sakhnusini, etc.) and harmonizes with the traditional settlement. In 2009-2010, renovation works were carried out and the Museum’s collection was enriched.
The ground floor houses the rare Private Folklore Collection of Stratis Pan. Tzinis, which consists of 870 exhibits (handicraft tools, household items and folk art). In the same room, the collections of ironwork of the brothers Panagiotis and Efstratiou Pr. Koutskoudi, carpentry tools of the brothers Efstratiou and Panagiotis Dim. Vassiltsoteli and saddlery goods of Michael G. Xenelis. The other room on the ground floor houses old weaving tools.
On the first floor there are spaces arranged in rooms of an old Agiasot traditional house. There are also rooms where local traditional costumes are exhibited, private collections of sacred ceramics (Grigori Evangelineli, Theodosias Maina, Kourtzi-Pantazi, Vassilis Kalogera), sculptures by Stratis Tzaneti and a Gallery of Lesbian Painters.
Agiasos Cultura
The Agiasos Reading Room “The Development” is one of the most historic and well-known nationwide associations with a wide range of activities, spanning many sectors. It was founded in 1894 and since then it has not stopped for a single moment to be active in the theater, in music, in the promotion of letters, in the gathering of folklore material and in the promotion of the popular events of Lesvos.
According to a first recording attempted by the Social-Cultural Communication & Documentation Laboratory of the University of the Aegean, in collaboration with the Reading Room, the archival material is extremely rich and unique in the Aegean area.
The association’s library is one of the most important nationwide, with around 25,000 volumes of books, covering all branches of science and most of which are electronically stored. It is enriched with new books and has important old editions and a few manuscripts.
Spiritual Center of Agiasos, Lesvos | 811 01 | 22520 22240
E-mail: info@anagnostirioagiasou.gr
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