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Tsalapata Museum - Volos
Tsalapata –Historical reference
You can visit, during your stay in Volos, Tsalapata museum which used to be a steam place where bricks and tiles were made and it was built in 1925 by Spyros and Nikos Tsalapatas under the instructions of Belgian engineers in order to produce bricks and tiles. It contained an extend of ground of 22.000 square meters from which 7.500 square meters were indoor. The first years of its function it employed 125 -150 people and it had an installed capacity of 150 horsepower which had a simultaneous production in electric current for the needs of the factory. In 1928 the factory was extended. The installed capacity came to 300 horsepower, the staff was 200 -250 employees. The factory produced different types of tiles(tiles with eight holes, with six, solid), French type tiles (Marseille), Greek type tiles(Byzantine).
The annual production of the factory came up from 8.000.000 to 9.000.000 pieces of different types. The production of the factory was interrupted twice. The first interruption was during the Second World War and the second at the earthquakes in1955 when it was pretty damaged. The restoration of these damages was unfortunately done cursorily, using wooden constructions for the buildings and with patents for the engineering equipment. In the 1960s the factory interrupted the production of the electrical current for its needs and it gets connected to the National Power System. At the same period electrically driven equipment was bought for the processing of the matter and the production of bricks and tiles. The staff was cut back on 80 employees.
In 1975 Tsalapata factory definitely stopped its function due to the competence and the accumulated economical demands. In 1944 the Municipality of Volos bought the block from the successors in the line of the URBAN program and later the Municipal Enterprise of Studying constructions in Volos planned the studies for the restoration of the place, the mechanical equipment as well as the integration of the new uses. The restoration began in 1998 and finished in 2001.
The place takes up 22,65 acres in the town and it has a block of industrial buildings of 7.600 square meters and shed places of 4.900 square meters.
It comprises an important sample of the existent industrial block at its kind in Europe.
Its uniqueness is proved by the maintenance of all the elements of the machinery and the equipment through the whole production, from the steam until the use of the electrical current, while it is preserved at an excellent condition the Hoffman furnace at its first form in which coal was used. The block is thought to be tenable according the Ministry of Civilization.
It includes:
Industrial History museum
The foundation of the Industrial Museum aims at the development and the elevation of the facilities and the mechanical equipment of the old place where tiles were made. It includes the following places:
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