Mykonos Folklore Museum
Captain's house displaying embroidered textiles, period rooms, and war of independence cannons.
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This guide to the Mykonos Folklore Museum, set in a sixteenth-century captain's house in the Kastro quarter, moves from embroidered linens and a period sitting room to a row of cannons with a much sharper story behind them. It follows Manto Mavrogenous, a young aristocrat from a trading fortune, who fitted out two ships as privateers and sold her own jewelry to arm two hundred men during the 1821 Greek revolt against Ottoman rule. You'll hear how foreign supporters, moved by her letters, sent money and weapons of their own. Look at the cannons in this quiet room and consider what an inheritance like hers could buy.
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