"Folk Arts Museum"

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Folk Arts Museum ‘Vas. PFF (Yunanca: , ,μα, acronym ,), a non-profit cultural institution and museums located in Nafplion of Greece. In 1974, he was founded in the memory of Vasilios Papantoniou, by folkist and natural designer Ioanna Papantoniou. The purpose of PFF is to investigate, maintain, study and presentation of the financial culture of Greeks.

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PFF was founded in 1974 by Ioanna Papantoniou. The house of the Papantoniou family at the beginning of the 20th century, and then translated into the museum, in 1981, the Museum of the European Year Award. In 1970 and 80s, the organization conducted various researches on the Griko communities of Greece, Cyprus and South Italy, and collected data and documents related to traditional culture, music and dance, and old fashion children toys.
In 1989, PFF founded a children's museum where the old local railway station in Nafplion is located. Four years later Melina Merkuri (then the Minister of culture of Greece), the Greek national outfit archives jumped to PFF. In 1999, the facility was renewed. In 2013, PFF was awarded the Athens Academy for its cultural activities.

The works of the board; Benaki Museum, Nafplio Municipality, Nicosia Municipality, Harokopio University, Greek World Organization, London Greek Center, Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation in cooperation with organizations and managements, Athens, Thessaloniki, Brussels, Dallas, Limassol and London were exhibited in cities.

Collections
There are 45,000 items in PFF collections. More than 27,000 goods are directly connected to popular and modern Greek culture, including Greece, Crete, Aegean and Ion Islands, Cyprus, Small Asia. The museum is also connected directly with fashion history, Christian Dior, Issey Miyake, Paco Rabanne, Christian Louboutin, Sue Wong, Mariano Fortuny, Laura Ashley, Jean Dessès, James Galanos, Yiannis Tseklenis also has 5,500 items. The organization is also a collection of photographs, sounds and films that are reserved for past research, a library entitled 10,000.

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