Lena's House Folk Museum

This guide to Lena's House Folk Museum in Mykonos centers on 1970, when the Drakopoulou family did something almost nobody on the island was doing anymore as charter flights and hoteliers arrived at Tria Pigadia. Rather than sell their nineteenth century townhouse, once home to a war hero and later to a woman named Lena Skrivanou, they handed it to the young Folklore Collection of Mykonos. The guide follows how the house opened to the public in 1972 and what survived inside it, from Viennese furniture to French engravings. Listen for the pigeons still cooing in the dovecote out back.