05/02/2008
THE METSOVO AREA/MUSEUMS

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- Folkloric Museum of Metsovo:
The museum belongs to the Baron Michael Tositsas Foundation. It is housed in the renovated Tositsa mansion and had been in operation since 1955. It houses an important collection of folkloric items which is exhibited in a systematic and practical manner, thus allowing visitors to envision life during the city’s heyday. (tel.: 2656 41084)
* culture, museum, folkloric art

- The Averoff Gallery:
In one of the loveliest locations in Metsovo with an astounding view is a traditional, three story house which houses 250 works of art that constitute one the most significant collections of modern Greek art. The collection belonged to Evangellos Averoff, a politician, writer and the “father” of modern Metsovo. The Gallery opened in 1988 and in the past 20 years it has been very active with showings and events, conventions, training courses, publications, screening and art workshops, thus contributing significantly to the area’s development. Mrs Tatiana Averoff is the heart and soul of the gallery. She is the daughter of its founder and carries on the traditions of Metsovo's benefactors.
* culture, gallery, conventions


Interior of the Tositsa mansion in Metsovo
(Photo: Nikos Desillas, Epirus an Aesthetic Wander Through a Greek Region, Synolo Publications, 1998, Athens)
Interior of the Tositsa mansion in Metsovo
(Photo: Nikos Desillas, Epirus an Aesthetic Wander Through a Greek Region, Synolo Publications, 1998, Athens)
Konstantinos Koutsouris, Dance in Metsovo, 1975
(Photo: Averoff Gallery, the Evangelos Averoff Tositsa Foundation, Dimitris Papastamos, 2nd Publication, 1992, Athens)
Kostas Malamos, a resident of Metsovo, 1961
(Photo: Averoff Gallery, the Evangelos Averoff Tositsa Foundation, Dimitris Papastamos, 2nd Publication, 1992, Athens)
Paris Prekas, Steges Metsovou
(Photo: Averoff Gallery, the Evangelos Averoff Tositsa Foundation, Dimitris Papastamos, 2nd Publication, 1992, Athens)
Early 2oth century woven woolen pillow from Metsovo. Red and black dominate, while the mainly geometrical decoration unfolds in a strictly symmetrical way. Such pillows would usually decorate the “minderia” or sofas in the living rooms Athens, Benaki Muse
(Photo: [ M.B. Sakellariou, Epirus, Ekdotiki Athinon S.A.])

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