Basketball Museum

The Folklore Museum of Polichrono founded in 2014 and officially launched on August 17, 2014. The museum is a creation of the Cultural Association of Polichrono and located behind the church of Ag. Athanasios.The scope of the museum is to preserve the cultural and intellectual heritage, concentration, preservation, conservation and promotion of any kind of historical and folklore material for educational and cultural advancement.Vavdos is an old mountain village in Halkidiki. It is 40 km from Thessaloniki and accessed from the Thessaloniki-Poliyiros provincial road. In the summer of 1997, the Vavdonians’ Association in Thessaloniki and the Folklore and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia and Thrace put together a folklore collection, which is housed in a room in the junior school that was designed for the purpose and has its own separate entrance. The exhibits were donated by the villagers.35 kilometres from Thessaloniki on the old Thessaloniki – Nea Moudania national highway is the village of Petralona. The cave and the Anthropological Museum are a further 2 km beyond the village.