Mykonos Places to visit Museums The Folk Museum  
 

 To the folk museum belong also Boni Windmill (16th c.) and Lena's House.

 The windmill (at the top of a hill) has also external installations as miller's house, a village oven, a water-well, a wine press, water trank of stones, a dovecot, a pigsty.

 Lena's House (donated by G. and I. Drakopoulos), at Tria Pigadia, is a 19th c. bourgeois home. It has two bedrooms, a large drawing room, two courtyards with a dovecot. Watch the woodcarvings, the furnishings, tapestries, prints, old mirrors and chattels.

Founded in 1958 by Professor V. Kyriazopoulos, it is situated at the stone-built house of Captain Malouchos inside the Kastro area in the town of Mykonos, near Paraportiani church. The old section of the Museum has been designated a listed building. It contains collections of objects from Venice and from every corner of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea, and also important manuscripts and printed matter, photographs, maps, a significant library. In the basement lies the water-well of the last pirate Mermelecha.

The Museum takes in: 

Room 1: It contains collections of keys and locks, hand-woven materials, painted plates, old weights and measures, traditional cycladic sculptures and a wide range of lightening devices from the ancient oil lamp to the paraffin lamp. 

Room 2: It represents a living room of the middle-class house of 19th century, containing a collection of obsidian tools and weapons. 

Room 3: It represents a 19th century bedroom.

Room 4: It represents a 19th century kitchen.

Room 5: It contains a collection of 19th century garments. 

Room 6: "Mykonos and sea". Around the well of pirate Mermelecha, which is supplying water to a rigged life-sized brig of 1821 (8 meters), there is exhibited a collection of large and small traditional ships of the Aegean sea, canons and pictures that represent old Mykonian sailing boats and steamships