Silversmithing Museum

The new silversmithing museum has opened in Ioannina Castle to showcase the city’s big records and ability within the silver industry. The idea for the venture commenced in 2008, with the implementation of studies on restoring the space. Supported with the aid of the local people and with attention given to maintaining the authentic masonry of the space, the museum is the ninth craft museum backed via the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation. The space for the everlasting exhibition changed into supplied by means of the Ministry of Culture.

The museum deals with silversmithing technology in the pre-industrial duration, at the same time as illuminating thea big history of silverware in Epirus from the fifteenth century to the 20th. It become inaugurated on September 17, 2016. This museum provides to a community of cultural museums created over the previous couple of years inside the vicinity. President of the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, Sofia Staikou, stated at the outlet ceremony “Culture is of first-rate importance, in particular in hard instances, instances of monetary crisis, identity crisis and values.

The exhibition areas avail themselves of the bastion’s two tiers. The first degree comprises the principle part of the exhibition, which refers back to the records and generation of silversmithing in Epirus. Through numerous presentation means texts, visible material, documentation movies, multimedia applications the vacationer discovers conventional techniques of shaping and decorating silver objects, learning approximately every method’s one-of-a-kind levels necessary to the creation of the stop product.