Casa-Museo / House-Museum. A cultural proposal in Karavomylos Kefalonia

In Karavomylos, in one of the most picturesque villages of Kefalonia, you will find Casa Museo, the museum that represents on a smaller scale a rezidetsa i.e. the residence of nobili/nobles in the countryside and hosts objects and furniture of the ancestral families Stefanatu-Mordoku, Kavalieratu and Tokka.

At a time when everything is changing rapidly and information is moving rapidly, without verification of authenticity, cities have begun to look for a way to delineate and redefine their identity in order not to let valuable information be irrevocably lost over time.

In this context, the creation of city museums finds fertile ground in both Europe and Greece as modern trends are identified with the strengthening of culture, a field where museums must be a key component.

In such cases it is interesting to study both the private initiative in the establishment and operation of city museums and the capacity of citizens to participate in them. Moreover, according to the basic museum theories, if a museum fails to be embraced and embraced by the citizens, if it has no deep roots in local history or does not open a fruitful dialogue with it, it will hardly be able to achieve its purpose and not even, even, be able to survive.

With this in mind, the case of the “casa-Museo/house-Museum” in Karavomylos Kefalonia should be studied in this respect.

In the summer of 2009, the non-profit organization “Intercultural Center of the Ionian Sea” was founded, based in Karavomylos Kefalonia, which gave priority, due to the devastating earthquakes of 1953, to the construction of a museum space.

The museum chose its own name. It is not a historical house that is converted into a museum – although it contains objects of historical persons – but also a folklore museum.

It is a new building, after the earthquakes of 1953 which is in the old rhythm formed externally and internally, in a green garden that houses objects and furniture of at least 2.5 centuries of history, wanting to pay tribute to all those ancestors who made Known Kefalonia and more generally the Ionian area, at the ends of the earth.

It is also the dream of a lifetime for Peristera and Takis Tokka.

In the summer of 2009, the non-profit organization “Intercultural Center of the Ionian Sea” was founded, based in Karavomylos Kefalonia, which gave priority, due to the devastating earthquakes of 1953, to the construction of a museum space.

The museum chose its own name. It is not a historical house that is converted into a museum – although it contains objects of historical persons – but also a folklore museum.

It is a new building, after the earthquakes of 1953 which is in the old rhythm formed externally and internally, in a green garden that houses objects and furniture of at least 2.5 centuries of history, wanting to pay tribute to all those ancestors who made Known Kefalonia and more generally the Ionian area, at the ends of the earth.

It is also the dream of a lifetime for Peristera and Takis Tokka.