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Information: This museum presents the technology of marble, as well as a detailed description of the necessary equipment and techniques used.
At the same time, the social and economic context, in which local laboratories were developed, emerges, with the emphasis given on pre-industrial and early industrial Tinos, the main center of modern Greek marble craft.
The permanent exhibition includes a variety of secular, religious, tombstones, and everyday original works of marble (lintels, fountains, coats of arms, corbels, shrines, mortars, etc.), clay models and plaster copies, quarrying and marble working tools, machinery, archival material, as well as the richest drawings collection of old marble craftsmen that exists in Greece.

Opening Hours: From March 1st through to October 15th: Daily (except Tuesdays) 10 am - 6 pm.
From October 16th through to February 28th: Daily (except Tuesdays) 10 am - 5 pm.

Closed on: Tuesdays, January 1st, Good Friday (until 12 noon), (Greek Orthodox) Easter Sunday, May 1st, September 14th (local patronal feast), August 15th, December 25th and 26th.

Entrance Fee: Standard entrance fee: € 3,00, Concessionary ticket: € 1.50.
Concessionary ticket is paid by the following categories of visitors by displaying
relevant proof:
1) All students of universities, technical institutes or equivalent educational
establishments from countries outside the European Union.
2) Parents having more than 3 children
3) Unemployed, with demonstration of unemployment card
4) All employees of Piraeus Bank Group as well as the members of their families
who accompany them upon presentation of ‘Winners Card’. 

Free admission:Days of free admission:May 18th (International Museum Day), June 5th (World Environment Day)
Categories of free admission:
1) All visitors under 18, upon presentation of their national identity
card or passport.
2) All visitors over 65, upon presentation of their national identity
card or passport.
3) Students night schools and second-chance schools.
4) All students of Greek universities, technical institutes or
equivalent educational establishments of European Union
Countries upon presentation of their student card.
5) Those serving their military service by showing their military ID.
6) Officials of the Ministry of Culture, with the demonstration of
their identity.
7) Group visits of all three levels of education (students with the
teaching personnel)
8) Tourist guides upon presentation of their professional card, as
well as the drivers of tour coaches.
9) Journalists, upon presentation of their press card.
10) Holders of the special I.C.O.M. and I.C.O.M.O.S. member card,
upon its presentation.
11) Members Companies and Associations of Friends of Museums
and Archaeological Sites in Greece by showing a certified member
card.
12) The card holders free entry upon presentation of a certified
card.
13) The Culture Card holders, upon presentation of a certified card.
14) Holders of the European Youth Card, upon its presentation.
15) The members of KAPH, by showing a certified card.
16) Disabled people as well as their companion.

source: www.tinos.gr