The Kombolói Museum: Description or Prescription of a Traditional Greek Craft?
2004; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 43; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1179/flk.2004.43.1.89
ISSN1759-670X
Autores Tópico(s)Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
ResumoMost tourists who visit Greece know the Kombolói as ‘worry beads’ — a string of movable beads joined usually with a tassel at the end. Few of the visitors who buy these plastic souvenirs realise that the Kombolói is really an established art form, examples of which may be seen at the Kombolói Museum. In 1998 Mr Aris Evangelinos, an experienced collector, opened this unique Museum in Nafplio, the former capital of the new Greek Republic. Shortly afterwards, branches of the Museum were opened in the stylish Athenian suburb of Kolonaki and in the lounge of the Byzantine Hotel in Patras. More recently, a nineteenth-century stone bakery in the traditional village of Portaria, Pelion has been converted into yet another branch of the museum, but the main collection remains in the beautiful eighteenth-century house on the corner of Staikopoulou Street in Nafplio.
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