Collections Masks Anastenaria - Offerings The child in tradition My Meliki Collection of Antiquities Map Collection Donated Collections

Anastenaria, where the natural space (konaki) is on the first floor of our Center. With this space, the konaki and the images, we put together a collection, perhaps the largest inside and outside of Greece, with more than 2,500 tamas of popular worship from Roman times until today.

MASKS "Mask" or "Face" are archetypal form and expression in Greek popular events. The core of the Mask Research Center is the collection of 120 so far functional "face" masks from all over Greece. Based and starting from the 120 masks that we have as a personal collection, scientific knowledge, documentation and popular know-how (photos, videos, narratives, descriptions, testimonies, publications, etc.) we set up the Mask Research Center (KEM). Balkan Masks In the full-national collection of Greek masks and considering a common place of performative magico-religious actions in the area of the Balkans and the Black Sea, in recent years we have put together a collection with corresponding to the Greek masks from events and ceremonies of the inhabitants of the Balkans. The common near-temporal performance of the folk events of the Twelve Days in the Christian world of the Balkans lends a pandemic celebratory atmosphere which may seemingly differ in its particularities, but the core remains the same. Research, record, interact and present.

Painting exhibition with works by G. Melikis at Atrion, Thessaloniki (2005) Giorgis Melikis "...when the goulian met the susourada!!! In a Turkish-Jewish inn." Bensusan Khan, Thessaloniki (2010) Painting Exhibition of Giorgis Melikis "Erotic" Ianos (2011) Byzantine Museum of Veria "Masks" Byzantine Museum of Veria "My Lady" Gallery "Eirmos" Thessaloniki "the Minotaur" Khalil Bey Mosque "All of the Walls", Kavala Byzantine Museum of Veria K.P. Cavafy "Incomplete questions something uncertain memories" Archaeological Museum of Polygyros Halkidiki "Masks" K.P. Cavafy "Remember, Body... the beds you made sideways", ART Thessaloniki Exhibition of Masks at MIET Thessaloniki Masks Art Thessaloniki Masks in Salamis LEMTH masks Masks Elafonisos 2022

Επιλέξτε την μάσκα που επιθυμείτε για αναλυτική περιγραφή Αράπης Μωμόγερος Γενίτσαρος Κορέλα Φράγκος Μπούλα (Νύφη) Μέτσκα (Αρκούδα) Αράπης Χαράπ’ (Αράπης) Χαράπ’ (Αράπης) Κούκερος Μπέης Κατσιούλα Ρουγκατσιάρη Σάγια Φάτσα Αργκουτσιάρη Μοσκαράδα κιοπέκ-Μπέης Χάσκαρης Αρναούτης Καδής Κουκερίνα Ντεβετζής Ντεβετζής Αράπης Μύστης Μικρός Τζαμάλαρος Πιτεράς Πουρπούρης Πράγκαλον (Μωμόγεροι) Νύφη (Μωμόγεροι) Κοτσαμάνης (Παλιός)

Address 4 AG.NIKOLAOU, 590 31 Meliki, Imathia Contact Tel. 2331081274, Mobile 6977211473 gmelikis@gmail.com Tel. 2331081274, Mobile 6977211473 Name Last Name Email Message Send Thanks for the communication

The Giorgis Melikis Ethnographic & Masks Research Centre (Melikis Museum) is located in Meliki, Imathia (60 km from Thessaloniki, 20 from Veria, 8 from Vergina). With historic and aesthetic sensitivity we explore, record, collect, publish and exhibit, both here at the Centre and in major museums, institutions, cultural centres and universities, legacies and creations of our material and immaterial civilisation. Living tradition -applied ethnography- and · the two-way interaction between that tradition and individuals or groups is an important aspect of our work. INTERACTIVE GAMES TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS SPECIAL EVENTS AG.NIKOLAOU 4 MELIKI, 59031 IMATHIA TEL: 2331081274 , CEL: +306977211473 EMAIL: gmalikis@gmail.com

Shop In our small shop, the publications of the Center are available as well as objects of folk tradition.

Maps Old maps from 1450 to 1930 where the main reference point is the Aigais.

Book Presentations I. Moschopoulos " Rumlouki (Campania) during the late Ottoman rule (1830-1900), 2019 "MASKS" Giorgis Melikis Collection. Photos by Dimitris Louzikiotis. Folklore & Ethnographic Museum of Macedonia-Thrace, 2019