Gran Castello Historic House

Coordinates: 36°2′47.5″N 14°14′23.3″E / 36.046528°N 14.239806°E

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The Gran Castello Historic House (Maltese: Dar Storika tal-Gran Kastell), formerly known as the Folklore Museum, is a historic house museum dedicated to Gozitan folklore in Victoria, Gozo, Malta.^[1] It is located within a cluster of 16th-century houses in the Cittadella, the oldest part of the city of Victoria; the houses were rehabilitated as a museum in 1983.^[2]

The museum's collections relate to the domestic, rural and traditional ways of life in the agrarian economy of the Maltese Islands and the many skills, crafts and traditions that have shaped everyday life on the islands over the centuries.^[3]

The architectural features of the buildings housing the museum are in Sicilian style, and may owe something to the influence of the Chiaramonte family of Sicily and southern Italy when they were Counts of Malta in the late 14th century. Delicate baroque façades countervail the relative plainness of the interiors.

It was renamed from Folklore Museum to Gran Castello Historic House museum in 2016, during the restoration of the Cittadella.^[4]^[5]

References

^ https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/15356/1/Barumbari%20Giren%20and%20Mgiebah%20-%20Vernacular%20gems%20in%20oblivion.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ "Folklore Museum". Heritage Malta. Archived from the original on 3 September 2018. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
^ "Folklore Museum". Visit Malta. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
^ "Opening up the Gran Castello". The Malta Independent. 19 January 2015. Archived from the original on 7 July 2016.
^ "Free entry to Heritage Malta museums, sites in Cittadella on Saturday". Times of Malta. 7 July 2016. Archived from the original on 7 July 2016.

36°2′47.5″N 14°14′23.3″E / 36.046528°N 14.239806°E / 36.046528; 14.239806

Victoria, Gozo

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Fortifications	Cittadella
Churches	St Mary's Cathedral St George' Basilica St Francis St James Nativity of Mary (Savina) St Augustine St John Bosco St Martha Annunciation Cana Movement Good Shepherd Manresa Our Lady of Grace Our Lady Help of Christians Immaculate Heart of Mary Our Lady of Pompei St Barbara Old St Joseph Immaculate Conception Nazareth Chapel
Palaces	Cagliares Palace Bishop's Palace
Museums	Gozo Museum of Archaeology Gozo Nature Museum Gran Castello Historic House Old Prison Heart of Gozo: Il-Hagar Museum War shelter under the Cittadella War Shelter under Triq id-Dejqa War Shelter under St Augustine's Square
Gardens	Villa Rundle
Theatres	Teatru Astra Teatru Aurora Oratorju Don Bosco
Other	Gozo Aqueduct Banca Giuratale Gozo Central Public Library Gozo Public Library

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