European Bread Museum

About

The European Bread Museum was founded in 2005, in order to proudly present to the public a many years lasting collectable project. An old mansion in Varnavas was turned into the Museum of Bread. The Museum displays over 3000 items of embroidered Bread, from Greece and 50 other countries! The goal of the Museum is to introduce especially to the children, the circle of bread, from sowing and kneading to the table. Alongside, the Museum aims at to present us a vast variety of bread embroidery patterns as they have been preserved and passed on from one generation to the next through the centuries. The designs differed from one area to the other; even families had their own distinguished bread embroidery. Special embroideries were also used on special occasions such as wedding days and religious festivities.