The Folk Museum in Ano Meri on Folegandros

Just before you reach the village of Ano Meria is the Folegandros Folk Museum (also called the Laografiko Museum). Park at the wall and follow the path a little bit and you'll see the museum. It opened in 1988 after many years of toil and moil.

Folklore museums is on many islands, most of them seem to be cast from the same mold. But there are exceptions. Folegandros Folk Museum is one such. If it were Swedish, it would have been placed at Skansen in Stockholm. That's how nice it is. Not to mention the view which is truly adorable.

Spinning coat and loom in the folk museum.

The Folk Museum (Laografiko Museum) is a complete farm as it looked like before modern machinery and electricity existed. Here are dwelling- and storehouses with complete interiors from the olden days. You get to see how they baked bread, pressed olive oil, produced wine - and how it was stored. Very interesting.

One of the rooms in the folklore museum outside Ano Meria.

Circle where the chaff was separated from the wheat with the help of donkeys.

The Folk Museum near the village of Ano Meria.

There are lots of things that are hard to understand what they were used for.

A very old sewing machine, or whatever it is.

Herbs grow a little around the museum.

You can also see a lemon tree that grows inside a circular wall. Before, lemon trees grew on all farms (lemon was needed because of vitamin C), and a wall was built around the trees so it would not blow away. Even today there are several walled in lemon trees, mainly in Ano Meria. Do not miss this amazing museum!

Walled lemon tree. There are plenty of these at Folegandros.

We were lucky to be guided around the museum by this amazing gentleman.

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