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Ethnological Museum of Thrace

Tourist attraction Museum Non profit organization Ethnographic museum

One of the Top rated Tourist attractions in Μαΐστρος


Address

14is Maiou 63, Alexandroupoli 681 00, Greece

Website

www.emthrace.org

Contact

+30 2551 036663

Rating on Google Maps

4.70 (547 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Sunday: 10 am to 2 pm
  • Monday: Closed
  • Tuesday: 9 am to 3 pm
  • Wednesday: 9 am to 3 pm
  • Thursday: 9 am to 3 pm
  • Friday: 9 am to 3 pm
  • Saturday: 9 am to 3 pm

Featured Reviews


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  • 5/5 Lucy N. 5 years ago on Google
    The building rocks! The guys working there are super friendly. We saw a lot of interesting things and kinda learned some history
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Marta K. 4 years ago on Google
    A lovely museum occupying one of the very few historic buildings left in Alexandroupoli, squeezed between modern apartment blocks. The museum is quite small, but well organised and provides information on Thracian culture of everyday life (note: it covers only the most recent history, that is mainly the end of the XIX and first half of the XX century). Very helpful and friendly staff. A great spot both for the younger and grown up visitors.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Paul D. 1 year ago on Google
    Beautiful museum with some well-preserved artifacts. The items are mostly from the region around and you get a glimpse of the past and how people lived and tried to thrive. Quite informative for it's size, definitely worth seeing and the price of the ticket is quite low as well.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 lavredi E. 1 year ago on Google
    Amazing museum, very knowledgeable curators, bringing local social history to life. Beautiful building. Would highly reccomend a visit and guided tour of the exhibits.

  • 3/5 Mac U. 7 months ago on Google
    Tracians are pro turkic nation who came to this lands over black sea around 200 A.D. Way before anatolia become turkic

  • 5/5 Luca A. 8 months ago on Google
    The museum is very interesting and depicts life in the region in the last 2 centuries! Our guide Valentina gave us a great insight on the costumes and other objects housed in the structure!

  • 5/5 Elif D. 6 months ago on Google
    There are wonderful traces of culture, and exploring the historic building is very enjoyable.

  • 5/5 Cami G. 9 months ago on Google
    It was nice to visit. All the tour lasted about 20-30 minutes. The lady guide spoke good english, had a lot of info for us and was very kind.

  • 5/5 Ingrid B. 9 months ago on Google
    Beautiful historical building, as Valentina, the museum's guide explained to us, the building is almost as old as the town. The exhibits in the museum are very interesting and depict life as it was in the 19th and first half of the 20th century. There is even a section dedicated to traditional sweets where you can see how baclava or other sweet treats are made. Definitely worth visiting!

  • 5/5 George P. 1 year ago on Google
    Great museum. All history about the local community. Staff is so friendly and so professional. Great jib

  • 5/5 Petros R. 1 year ago on Google
    Excellent museum in a beautiful building. Clearly a lot of effort went into it. Highly recommended!

  • 5/5 Vili I. 1 year ago on Google
    The exposition was very interesting! The lady in the museum was very kind and helpful 😊. You can take photos of the objects inside and outside. If you want to learn more about the history of Thrace make sure to visit this place :).

  • 5/5 D D. 2 years ago on Google
    Fantastic museum... Great folk artifacts, plows, bellows, pottery, silver, books ..... AND .... Costumes. We were so fortunate that the beautiful lady who worked there explained the decorations and customs that were at play in the clothes. Why necklaces of money was common, why scarves were different materials. The basement was exciting to us... A 20 foot deep well .. wine making, wine press, tools, thatching .... Just go. You will love it.

  • 5/5 Bogdan I. 1 year ago on Google
    I loved the experience at this museum. The house itself it is pretty amazing and beautiful. An authentic old house very nice preserved. We visited the entire museum and after that, the girl who is working there talked with us about what we saw and about historical places in our country. She was very nice.

  • 4/5 Ates B. 1 year ago on Google
    Small museum about Thrace ethonogical history. It will take 30mins to 1hr to visit everthing.

  • 5/5 Malcolm MX T. 7 years ago on Google
    cool place with a lot of history about the old silk road and Byzantine and ottoman cultures

  • 5/5 Nicholas J. 2 years ago on Google
    It was very nice , i loved that it had everything explained in english also . The employees were really nice and very helpful , very good at explaining , clean english , very kind and resourceful. The building itself has a history ! And as a piece of advice before proceeding to look at all the museum has to offer , it is recommended to read as you enter , the text on the left wall and the right wall so you understand exactly what it is all about !

  • 5/5 V D. 3 years ago on Google
    Wonderful folk museum in the city centre in a discerning building with very inviting staff. Definitely worth a visit.

  • 4/5 René D. 2 years ago on Google
    Nice place, it gives an idea of the traditional life before in Thrace. Nice welcome there.

  • 5/5 Ioannis K. 2 years ago on Google
    It's a must visiting. The museum exhibits facts of Thrace, that apart from being historically important in relation to its contributed role in the cultural and agricultural development as a significant Balkan economic centre, it also exposes the cultural fashion design as a result of its multicultural environment. Greek, Armenians, Pomaki, Othomans, Bulgarians, Gipsies/Roma, Jews lived in the area. It is not accidental, that reps from international fashion houses visit the museum. After the visit today together with the visit to the similar museum in Xanthi, it makes me feel that it is understandable why the coexistence of multicultural people develop their social, cultural, ideological and economic living by creating new standards, as long as the civilization principles supersede the ethnical ones. The other way round brings civil wars and catastrophic results.


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Amenities


  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible toilet
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible entrance
  • From the business
    • ✓️ Identifies as women-owned

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