The Folklore Museum of Central Corfu is a small museum in the historic village of Sinarades in central Corfu. The museum shows the everyday life in Corfu throughout the ages.
The museum was founded by the now-retired teacher Nikos Paktitis, who has been involved in folklore since the 1950s. He started collecting folklore items by himself, and with the help of other folklorists, he later founded the Historical Folklore Society of Central Corfu.
Until 1987, the Folklore Museum of Central Corfu was located on the ground floor of a one-story building in the center of the village. Because the space was no longer suitable to house the growing collection, the museum was moved to a traditional house in the Ai-Giannis neighborhood of Sinarades.
The house in which the Folklore Museum of Central Corfu is located showcases the traditional everyday life of the middle class at the end of the 19th century. A marble staircase built from local materials leads to the entrance on the first floor, where you can visit the kitchen, dining room, and bedroom. An internal staircase leads to the upper floor where you can visit the library and museum archive.
The rooms are furnished and decorated with items collected from the central part of the island and consist of everyday household objects, but you can also see other ethnographic items like agricultural tools, fishing tools, traditional costumes, handicrafts, and religious objects.
The museum is only open during the summer season.
