The Gran Castello Historic House (Maltese: ''Dar Storika tal-Gran Kastell''), formerly known as the Folklore Museum, is a

historic house museum A historic house museum is a house of historic significance that has been transformed into a museum. Historic furnishings may be displayed in a way that reflects their original placement and usage in a home. Historic house museums are held to a ...

dedicated to Gozitan folklore in

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, Gozo,

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. It is located within a cluster of 16th century houses in the

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, which were rehabilitated as a museum in 1983. The museum's collections relate to the domestic, rural and traditional ways of life in the agrarian economy of the Maltese Islands and the many skills, crafts and traditions that have shaped everyday life on the islands over the centuries. The architectural features of the buildings housing the museum are in Sicilian style, and may owe something to the influence of the

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family of

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and southern

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when they were Counts of Malta in the late 14th century. Delicate baroque façades countervail the relatively plainness of interiors. It was renamed from Folklore Museum to Gran Castello Historic House museum in 2016, during the restoration of the Cittadella.

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{{Authority control Folk museums in Europe Victoria, Gozo Museums established in 1983 Historic house museums in Malta Sites managed by Heritage Malta

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