The Municipal Museum of Grevena museum is housed in a recently constructed building next to the Bousios family’s old water mill near the workers’ homes in the city

Grevena Grevena ( el, Γρεβενά, ''Grevená'', , rup, Grebini) is a town and municipality in Western Macedonia, northern Greece, capital of the Grevena regional unit. The town's current population is 13,374 citizens (2011). It lies about from Athe ...

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. It has been operating since 2000 under the auspices of the Grevena Municipal Enterprise. In the museum there are

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finds, objects from folk culture and an exhibition of wood-carvings. To be more precise, conserved and on display are the bones of a 200,000-year-old fossilized elephant ( Paleoloxodon Antiqus), found in Ambelia and preserved in excellent condition, as well as parts of a wild ox (

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). The folklore exhibits include men’s and women’s traditional dress, farming tools, domestic utensils, objects related to textiles (a loom, pieces of embroidery, woollen coverlets, rag rugs etc.). The wood-carving exhibits are the work of Dimitris Agorastis, with subject matter taken from folklore, religious observance, farming life and contemporary human relations, and were donated to Grevena Municipal Museum by the artist himself. The museum is planning to put the traditional mill back into operation for educational purposes.

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Grevena (regional unit)