The Open Air Water-Power Museum in Dimitsana (Peloponnese) is a
thematic museum centred on the importance of hydraulic power in
traditional societies, which presents the basic pre-industrial
techniques using water as their main source of energy to produce
various goods. In an area covering a stremma (1,000m2 or
10,764ft2 – roughly a quarter of an acre), in the midst of
luxuriant vegetation and abundant streams, a complex of water-
powered installations and machinery has been restored, so as to
integrate them into a museum on waterpower. Each of the
buildings housing the old traditional workshops has been
renovated and now has a permanent exhibition whose thematic
content concerns the workshop it is in: The first building
houses a fulling tub and a flourmill. Up to the mid-20th
century, a score of (covered or open-air) fulling-tubs
functioned in the vicinity of Dimitsana, where woven woollen
fabrics were washed (different kinds of blankets, bedcovers and
rugs). The art of the fuller (or dristeliari, as he was c