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Folklore Museum

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Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Folklore Museum
Phone:
+356 2156 2034

Hours:
Sunday9am - 5pm
Monday9am - 5pm
Tuesday9am - 5pm
Wednesday9am - 5pm
Thursday9am - 5pm
Friday9am - 5pm
Saturday9am - 5pm


The Gran Castello Historic House , formerly known as the Folklore Museum, is a historic house museum dedicated to Gozitan folklore in Victoria, Gozo, Malta. It is located within a cluster of 16th century houses in the Cittadella, 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 Chiaramonte family of Sicily and southern Italy 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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