Museum of Marble Crafts
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The Verdict
The best explanation anywhere of why Tinos looks the way it does, told through the tools and the work.
Why go
Tinos’ marble tradition has shaped the whole island — the paved villages, the carved doorframes, the sculpture studios — and this museum in Pyrgos shows how the stone is worked, with tools, drawings and pieces from local workshops, and a section on the sculptor Yannoulis Chalepas. It is small, well arranged and an hour well spent before walking round the village.
Understand the place
A museum in Pyrgos on Tinos showing how the island quarries, carves and finishes marble, from the tools to the finished sculpture.
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