Faltaits Museum

The Faltaits Museum was founded in 1964 by Mano Faltaic and is one of the first local historical and folklore museums in Greece. Housed in the old mansion of "Faldai", whose roots are lost in Byzantium, it dominates the NE end of the city, built on the largest tower of the ancient Pelasgian walls of Skyros.

In the Museum, which consists of many rooms on different levels, there is a feeling that you are more in the studio of an artist (Manos Faltaits) with scattered paintings by very expressive naked women or faces with the characteristic oblique look - a technique reminiscent of - rather than a conventional museum. A controlled disorder of a living space, where books, paintings, art objects, ceramics make the Museum extremely familiar and attractive, so you can watch the tour for a while without getting bored for a moment.

The Museum contains, among other things, all its elements of everyday lifeOf artOf speech and history of the island from post-Byzantine to modern times. At one point a representation of the popular Skyrian house has been created, its structure with the mesantres, the lintel and the Skyrian furniture, but also the ceramics, the glassware and the bronze objects.

The ceramics are the most important collection of the Museum. It contains various schools of pottery: the "Roditika", old pottery of Asia Minor, the famous Dutch Delft, Chinese and Korean of the 18th century, the "Kastriana" or otherwise those that came from Canakkale, the "Lainiles", and dishes in vivid brown and yellow colors, mainly of Spanish and Italian origin as well as ceramics from North Africa, known as "Kopta" in dark yellow color and their decorative patterns in green or brown.

The embroideries also have a completely special place in the Museum's collections and are divided into Kokkinokentia, Asprokentia, "aratzideles", Orkos and "Grafta", which are the most impressive category of Skyrian embroidery.