Botanical Museum of the Mountaineering Association (Siatista)

The Botanical Museum was opened in 1989 by the Mountaineering Association to spotlight the wealth and variety of vegetal and animal life in the Vourinos Range of West Macedonia, Greece. The aim was to educate people in environmental awareness and to emphasise the need to protect the Siatista area from activities that lead to environmental decline.

The Museum has been temporarily transferred to three rooms in the Tsipos Boarding School until completion of the restoration and repair work being carried out in its usual premises, the Trabadzis Gymnasium, which was damaged by an earthquake.

There are 700 flowers and plants displayed at the Museum (in the form of photographs and dried plants), 500 rare butterflies, and a number of reptiles from the Messianos valley and the Vourinos area in general.

Image Gallery

Outside Trabadzis Gymnasium
Display of Butterfly collection
Display of rare flowers
Show-case with reptiles

Sources

The original version of this article was taken from the corresponding article at the Museums of Macedonia website, commissioned by the Macedonian Heritage foundation, written by Vlasis Vlasidis, and published under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 license.

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