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The Museum includes approximately 3,000 photographs, drawings and plans of bridges, belfries, mosques, lighthouses, quays, public and private houses in Greece and abroad. These constitute documents revelatory of the character of the local architecture of the Balkans in the past 300 years. The Museum collection includes books and work contracts, bonds and bills of exchange, passports, personal diaries, correspondence of the masons with their families, records of the itinerary of the "bouloukia" or "bands" of masons in Greece and abroad. Old tools and drawings of tools along with notes of the old master-masons on their use, are also exhibited, together with architectural elements (doors and windows, lintels, fireplaces, etc.), donors' inscriptions and stone reliefs (masks, busts, flowers, birds and symbols), the building methods for walls (irregular, Linear, Byzantine). The ethnological treasure displayed in the Museum constitutes a living school of architecture, which is complemented by seminars and educational activities organized by the cultural center of Pyrsogianni, which is located on the first floor of the building. |
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