There are various ways of narrating the history of a place. A local folk museum is one of those ways but also a space were local memory is in operation or, in other words acted out.[…] It must operate like an organism that lives in order to externalize the collective memory and feed the mind of the community, in its place of origin. The local museum, and in particular the local folk museum, does not exist only as a picture of the community but produces and reproduces that picture and, in some fortunate cases, pictures of the social cohesion of the community.
Eleonora Skouteri-Didaskalou
Social Anthropoligist, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
The “Folk Museum of Velvendo” in the press.
In the Museum, the measure of the emblematic presence of local people telling their own stories and composing a version of local history, typical on one level but unique on another, is the principle that defines the museum exhibits and lies behind their special museological display.
