The Museum of Folklore in Aleppo plays an important role in tourist promotion as well as showing the popular fashion and customs.

Curator of the museum Miralda Mshati said the museum was called Beit Ejaq Basha and the building dates back to 1758 during the Ottoman period.  Decorations on the stone which form the building of this museum are called Rococo, a label belonging to the European Baroque period, drawn from European decorations.

She also said that the opening of the Museum of Popular Traditions was in 1983. The museum includes a set of hand-made copper pots and pans, dishes and traditional folk colors embroidered clothes, pointing out that the oldest piece of cloth hanging in the museum is a female dress aged 400 years, a dress embroidered with silver and silk.

She indicated that the museum is located in the center of the old city at Jasmine gate and consists of nine rooms, including a room for Arab furniture, a room for weapons such as swords and French and Ottoman guns, a room for copper utensils carved with graphic and geometric decorations, a room for passengers and guests, a  room to display  a scene of the night of henna for the bride, a room for machinery used in handicraft-traditional industries such as handloom and templates for spinning and fezzes.

The museum also has a basement in which scenes of sitting rooms, one containing Addounia box which displayed for children pictures of folk heroes and an old film projector and photographs of scenes of Krakouz and Iwaz puppetry when people gathered to enjoy their funny shows. There is also a room for the barber.

The number of pieces on display amounts to more than 1300 pieces, including 130 pieces of popular fashion of Aleppo and 80 pieces of jewelry and silver and 700 pieces of metal, wood, and pottery, 100 pieces of glass.

For his part, Director of Antiquities and Museums Nadeem Fakash said that Aleppo boasts many museums and archaeological sites. There are six museums: the National Museum of Aleppo, the Museum of Folklore, the Museum of Aleppo Memory Dar al-Ghazali, which is currently under renovation and will be to showcase examples of civilizations and the inventions of the people of the city, adding that restoration work will be completed this year in preparation for its opening next year.

He adds that the city contains the Museum of the History of Medicine and Science of the Arab Alargony and the Museum of herbal medicine in Bimarstan Noori, which dates back to the Ayyubid period. SANA