Museum of Natural History & Theophilos Hatzimichael

In  nearby town, called Vrissa, was a small museum showing the prehistoric habitat and animals, and even some taxidermy of todays animals. It was only made up of 2 rooms and a small garden, and was run by donations of things that the people of the nearby towns had found. It showed bones and various bodies of animals. Although I couldn't take pictures of everything, I was able to take some pictures of Taxidermy, which i'm quite interested in, and also a cast of a Giant prehistoric Turtle, the shell was the size of a car (which they had to fit in the back yard since it was too big)! Outside they also had a pet turtle, it was lovely. 

It was bigger than me!

I love birds so much.

This is so disgusting! One of these attacked my mum in an aquarium.

Theophilos Hatzimichael

I also managed to find the wonderful house (if you want to call i a house!) of this inspirational greek folk painter, Theophilos. His paintings are inspired by mythology and tales, although they are very hard to come by because they were not well preserved and are either destroyed or wrecked beyond recognition. Some of his works that are currently still will us were once exhibitioned at the Louvre in Paris not long after he died. Theo lived in a tree, where he made most of his paintings and was not wealthy. He was happy to trade his art for some food. I was able to go inside his tree, and also some paintings he had made on a wall were still there! That was really unbelievable to see. It was a beautiful lush place down in a forest by a very clean river, surrounded by nature, which Theo was also greatly inspired by. He was truely a lucky man to have so little and live a happy life. He died of food poisoning in 1934. If anyone finds their way to Lesvos, this place was a must. 

Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest & Museum of Industrial Olive-Oil Production

During our last couple of days in Lesvos we decided we could not miss out on one of the most notorious attractions of lesvos despite knowing that it would be a long treacherous journey, Lesvos is the 3rd biggest island in Greece and Sigri, where the museum is located, was on the opposite side of the  island. It was well worth the time and dodgy roads, it was amazing what time and a little bit of volcanic ash can do to trees! 

The Olive Museum

The olive museum was also some thing we visited in the last few days. It was not very high on our to-do list but since it was not too far it was well worth our time. It showed us an in-depth look into what the workers had to do to create the renowned olive oil of Greece, and also presented the agricultural side, and the technological development Greece was going through during the time the oil mill was in production.

I found this weird! In Greece :)

It was huge!

Hello! (This is me)

Really cool old box designs!

Acropolis Museum

During my summer holidays, I went away to Greece and Turkey, and I made it a point to go and visit every museum I could find, regardless of the content. I had a really great 2 weeks and I am pleased to share some wonderful photographs of some of the places i visited. The First museum visit I will share is my Visit to Acropolis Museum, Exhibition of Archaeological Findings, which contains archaeological findings from the athens area related to the  Acropolis of Athens, which is an ancient citadel, within it lying the Parthenon, the most famous structure within the citadel. The Parthanon is a temple dedicated to ancient greek gods. The exhibition has art, pottery, decorations, ect from the Acropolis itself.