The Menelaos Parlamas Museum of Rural Life & Theano Metaxa-Kanakaki Weaving Collection, was founded by the Society of Cretan Historical Studies in 1988 and is a branch of the Historical Museum of Crete.

It is housed in a 19th-century stone-built olive mill and house (donated by the Parlamas family), The Museum Collections are organised thematically (wine press, raki still, oven, agricultural implements, Cretan house, smithy, cooper’s shop, carpenter’s shop, olive mill, weavings - weaving tools and lacework), centered around the Cretan countryside and objects dating from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. In 2011, following an extensive renovation and expansion, the Museum acquired new weaving wings with textiles from the Theano Metaxa-Kanakaki Collections which are displayed thematically along with weaving tools from the SCHS Ethnographic Collection.

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