Folklore museum of Kedros: Unique exhibits from other times – See photos

A folklore museum with unique exhibits from the daily life of the inhabitants, the agricultural jobs and the activities of other times, will be encountered by the visitor who will be in the village Cedar of the Karditsa Regional Unit. This is the folklore museum of Kedros, which was created by the cultural association of Kedriots of Athens. The cultural association has the custody of the photos and the objects when the board of the association consisted of: Christina Saksoni president, Kimona Panagiotou vice-president, Violetta Saksoni born. secretary, Giorgos Eleftheriou treasurer, Saki Panagiotou deputy secretary, Konstantinos Kehagia treasurer and Thanos Zachos in charge of public relations.

Through the photographs displayed on the walls of the museum, the life of the village and its evolution, weddings, festivals are presented. While the agricultural tools reveal the agricultural work of another era, particularly difficult, in which bread, as the residents say, was earned with a lot of toil and meager means, as all the work, domestic, agricultural, was done by hand and the use of the analogous tools and without the significant assistance offered today by modern machinery.

But how did the need to create such a museum arise? As Christina Saxony, president of the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, points out Cultural Association of Kedriots of Athens and among the main contributors to this effort, there was a strong need to find a place for a permanent exhibition not only of photographs, but also of objects that illuminate aspects of the lives of our parents and grandparents. In order to preserve and save, as much as possible, the common memory, which creates the common consciousness and ultimately the identity of a society. The occasion was given when the former mayor of the then municipality of Menelaido, Kostas Spyridonis, proceeded to restore the primary school. He himself aimed to create a folklore museum in one of the rooms. We implemented this idea, she adds, and that’s how we arrived on August 16, 2023, when our museum was inaugurated in a festive event.

The objects housed in the hall of the folklore museum come from the inhabitants of the village, while efforts to create a museum were made earlier by other villagers, where many objects were collected which are now in the museum. Also, several of the exhibits were collected by the then Kedros folklore dance group headed by the late Yiannis Giannopoulos, who was a scholar of our folk tradition.

*Photos attached are his Apostoli Zoi