Alexandros Papadiamantis Museum

The museum is actually the house where Alexandros Papadiamandis, one of the most important Greek writers of the last century, lived and died. The writer was born in 1851 in a previous house, then demolished. The current house-museum is a small building built in 1860 by Adamantios, the author's father.

It is located in the heart of the city of Skiathos, in a side street of Papadiamanti Street, and is one of the most expensive places for the islanders, very close to the famous writer, as well as a destination for tourists from all over the world.

It is a small two-storey building that reflects the traditional Greek architecture, of 35 square meters on the ground floor and 40 square meters on the first floor. Its walls are in stone and in "tsatma", a light structure in wood and plaster. The wooden roof with four inclinations is covered with "Byzantine" type tiles. The doors and windows are made of wood, quite large, the staircase and the floors are also in wood and generally all its elements retain the original color.

On the left side of the entrance is the living room with the fireplace and the original furniture. On the right there is a small room in which the author's father, who was an Orthodox priest, kept his books and religious clothes.

Here Papadiamantis remained throughout his life until the cold winter of 1911.

On the first floor everything remained as Alexandros Papadiamandis left it, with its original furniture and objects of the time, while the ground floor serves as an exhibition hall with manuscripts, documents, photos and other objects concerning the life and work of the writer. In the house there is also a small shop where you can buy his books and other gadgets.

In 1954 the building was purchased by the state and since then belongs to the municipality of Skiathos. In 1965 he was appointed a cultural monument by the Greek Ministry of Culture. While the building renovations were carried out in 1990.

Papadiamantis, was undoubtedly one of the major representatives of modern Greek literature, also called "poet of prose" for his ability in writing. He is one of the leading figures of the whole island of Skiathos, to the point that the main street of the city was named after him and his skull is still preserved in the church of Panagia Limnia, still located in the capital.
He translated Bram Stoker's "Dracula" into Greek and was the first to translate Fyodor Dostoevski's masterpiece "Crime and Punishment" into Greek. One of his masterpieces, The Assassin, published in 1903, is the inner journey into a woman's psyche and speaks of how evil can lurk in all minds, even the simplest ones.

Visiting the places where this important writer lived is undoubtedly a way to approach the extraordinary culture of the island of Skiathos, closely observing the places that inspired one of the greatest talents in Greek literature.

Furthermore, this lovely apartment will take you back in time, in an age where everyday life on the island of Shiathos was much easier.
Papadiamantis was not a rich man during his existence and a bit like various artists lived his everyday life without too many schemes, as well as the protagonists of his novels, but he left us all a rich cross-section of the life of the time.

Entrance ticket: € 1.50

Opening time:
From 1 April to 31 October: 10.00 - 13.00 and 17.00 - 19.00
From 1 November to 31 March: 8.30 - 15.00

Official website: click here