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  Worth a short visit - The museum is in a nicely renovated building just off the main street. The ticket price is quite good value and some of the exhibits are interesting. Whilst (as one... read more would expect), the history of the upheavals in the region of Thrace are told from a very Greek perspective, and could be a little more balanced, overall its worth a visit if one is in Alexandroupoli and looking for an hour or two to spend some time.

  The Ethnological Museum of Thrace is housed in a lovely neoclassical building from 1899, now all lost between modern apartment blocks. It is a tourist-friendly museum, since - unlike the... read more otherwise equally good Historical Museum - the information boards are written not only in Greek, but also in English, also all exhibits are labeled in these two languages.

The museum is mainly the work of one lady (Angeliki Giannakidou), whose name is mentioned even on the ticket (3 Euros). What can be seen is the everyday life of the people in this part of Thrace from the beginning of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century: costumes, musical instruments, pottery, metalwork and more, all exhibited in the ground floor.

If one goes out by the back door one comes to a courtyard with a cafeteria and a sesame oil-press. Going down into a cellar, there are rooms with tools and information about various economic activities of this area: the cultivation of grain, wine and tobacco, but also of silk, indigo and honey.