Established 1933 Phone +30 2651 026356 | Type Ethnographic museum Founded 1933 | |
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Location Old town of Ioannina, Greece Address Noutsou 8, Ioannina 452 21, Greece Similar Archaeological Museum of Epirus, Pavlos Vrellis Greek His, Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina, Aslan Pasha Mosque, Lake Ioannina | ||
The Municipal Ethnographic Museum of Ioannina is a museum in Ioannina, Greece.
It is housed in the Aslan Pasha Mosque, also known as the Mosque of Ali Pasha, in the Ioannina Castle since 1933. The Mosque was built in 1618 and in 1993 it was renovated to its present form.
Its permanent exhibition includes pottery, pictures, and other traditional decorative items, as well as jewelry, textiles, hand-weapons, wood-carved pieces of furniture and several personal objects that belonged to historical personalities.
There are also early photographs and paintings related to the liberation of the city of Ioannina. Additionally the museum hosts exhibitions on historical topics as well as collections of art.
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Municipal Ethnographic Museum of Ioannina Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA