Museum of Greek Folk Art - National Museum of Greece under the control of the Ministry of Culture of Greece. Museum was founded in 1918 in the mosque Tsisdaraki and called "Museum of Greek handicraft." In 1923 the museum was renamed the "National Museum of Decorative Arts." Its current name was only a museum in 1959.

In 1973, the main collection and the main funds were transferred to the new museum building, located in the old Plaka district of Athens Street Kidatineon. The mosque was Tsisdaraki branch of the museum, where a collection of folk art pottery Kiriazopulosa. Also, branches of the museum can be visited on the street Kirrestu (the only remaining public baths) and the street Tespidos, both are also in the area of ​​Plaka. The recently opened another branch of the museum in the street Panos, there is exhibited a collection of tools of various professions.

The collection presented in the museum, covers all areas of folk art. This knitting and embroidery, national costumes, gathered from all over Greece, and a collection of dolls shadow theater, metalwork and wood, silver and clay, home and church utensils, weapons and other interesting items. The earliest exhibits in the museum relate to 1650.

The museum also displays works by famous Greek painter primitivist Hatsimihaila Theophilus (1870-1934).

The museum has its own library with lots of books on folk art, an archive of photographs and video and a laboratory for preservation of museum exhibits.

The museum organizes temporary exhibitions, a variety of educational programs and workshops for children and adults.