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Ptolemaida Ptolemaida ( el, Πτολεμαΐδα, Ptolemaïda, Katharevousa: Πτολεμαΐς, ''Ptolemaïs'') is a town and a former municipality in Kozani regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of th ...

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: Παλαιοντολογικό Ιστορικό Μουσείο Πτολεμαΐδας), former Anthropological and Folklore Museum (Ανθρωπολογικό και Λαογραφικό Μουσείο), was established in 1997 by the Municipality of Ptolemaida. It was initially housed in a ground-floor shop at 19 Nosokomeiou St. During 2000 it is due to be installed in a new building especially built for this museum.Museums of Macedonia This new building located on 28 Oktovriou St and Agias Triados St corner.

Exhibits

The nucleus of the museum display is the

folklore Folklore is shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. This includes oral traditions such as tales, legends, proverbs and jokes. They include material culture, ranging ...

material collected by a teacher named Georgios Kolitsis in 1981 in the area of

Eordaia Eordaia ( el, Εορδαία) is a municipality in the Kozani regional unit, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Ptolemaida. The municipality has an area of 708.807 km2. The population was 45,592 in 2011. Municipality The munici ...

, on behalf of the Ptolemaida's Nature Club. Once the museum had opened, the folklore collection was supplemented with new exhibits, some of which are on display and others in storage in view of the impending move to new premises. The exhibits at present include local costumes from

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, household utensils, agricultural implements, ornamental objects, tools of various trades, old coins, needlework, and embroidered and woven fabrics. The paleontological collection includes tusks, bones and teeth of prehistoric elephants ('' Elephas (Paleoloxodon) antiquus''), the lower jaw of a

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, a partial skull of an aurochs ( ''Bos primigenius''), antlers of red deer (''

Cervus elaphus The red deer (''Cervus elaphus'') is one of the largest deer species. A male red deer is called a stag or hart, and a female is called a hind. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Anatolia, Iran, and parts of wes ...

'') and moose ('' Alces latifrons''), and

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s and starfish 70–80,000,000 years old. The museum has included an art gallery since January 1998. Within the first year, it collected and exhibited 300 works by such well-known Greek painters as Moralis, Mytaras, Pandaleon, Fassianos, Karavouzis, Malamos, Angelou, Tetsis, Botsoglou, Metaxas, Papaspyrou, Haros, Kioussis, and Vakirdzis, as also 50 works (oils, engravings, and pastels) by Pavlos Moskhidis.

Gallery

File:Macedonian_Museums-21-Anthrop_Laogr_Ptolemaida-102.jpg, Fossilized shells File:Macedonian_Museums-21-Anthrop_Laogr_Ptolemaida-103.jpg, More fossilized shells File:Macedonian_Museums-21-Anthrop_Laogr_Ptolemaida-104.jpg, Lower jawbone of hippopotamus File:Macedonian_Museums-21-Anthrop_Laogr_Ptolemaida-105.jpg, Prehistoric elephant fossils

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* {{authority control Folk museums in Western Macedonia Natural history museums in Greece Museums established in 1997