Open-Air Water Power Museum
A living showcase of water-powered crafts and history in Arcadia.
Why it matters
The museum turned old productive technology into living heritage and helped Dimitsana become an alternative cultural destination.
The Open-Air Water Power Museum did not preserve buildings alone. Through the intervention of the Cultural Technological Foundation of ETBA, water-powered installations and their functions were restored, presenting gunpowder technology, mills, workshops and the Aghianis landscape as one cultural ensemble.
The genealogy of the museum begins earlier: the EOT studies had already pointed to the value of the water-powered network, and local actors, including the Brotherhood, saw the ruined mills, gunpowder mills and tanneries as a possible development and heritage resource.