"THE HOUSE WITH THE ROSE "

The painter Chrisoula Zogia was born in Volos in 1914, and many of her paintings - specially the first ones like designs and portraits- had the influence of her teachers Nikita Grispo and Spiro Vikato.

The Red House with The Rose and the external wall prints, on the corner of Vlahava and A.Gazi streets in Volos, is a characteristic sample of the artistic mental constitution of the painter. After she died and the opening of her testament in 1992, one of her last wish and order was the donation of the building to the Municipality Of Volos to use it as a museum- picture gallery and also be a cultural legacy for the next generations.

As she wrote on her last poem "I believe that beauty on the body may lost, on the art never" and according with an autograph in her testament saying "The present concerns the conservation and project of my work, where hiding my Beautiful Soul".

The Administrative Border of Volos in co-operation with the Artistic Organization of Volos, in 1993, took the administration part of the building. The conservation and formation of the house into picture gallery, according with the last instructions of the painter as concerns the colors and the furniture, undertake the painter Michael Vamvakaris as a member of the Artistic Organization of Volos.

The opening on the building in 10/3/1994 combines with the painting exhibition "The House with The Rose".

The works are about 250 items and are mostly oil graphs with subjects like "dead nature", portraits, local and Pelion houses with bloom yards, internal of the houses, internal and external of catholic and other churches where are mostly printed on the side ways of the stairs, draws made by ink and pencil. Special care needed her work "Rose" an oil graph on moving metal, "Conscience of Conscienceless in Conscience" wall graph on plaster frame, "Prints of Hands" a wall print on the internal area of the stairs made by the workers of the building, doodle painting compositions, two portraits of the painter made by her teacher Nikita Grispo, etc.

The intense personality of Chrisoula Zogia is marked on all over the building. In the closet of her bedroom, all her personal stuffs- like perukes, hats, dresses, shoes - remains there, in the kitchen on the shelves drawing bottles according her mood, in the toilette the drawings with the naked figures of a man and a woman on the closet sides where there you see her dislike for men. In her office we about to see among all the others and many distinguishes and excellencies from the local and foreign area, where we can see her rich travel experience and sense for sociality against her intense introversion. Even the doors are printed according her personal taste.

The Municipal Centre of History and Validation of Volos took the management of the museum while many of the works lays on the National Picture Gallery. The public may visit the house in the morning hours 10:00pm - 13:00am every Sunday, free entrance. No pictures allowed because the law about the protection of the mental rights.