Xanthi's Folk Art Museum is as much about the building as the collection. It occupies two adjoining old-town mansions, their painted interiors, carved woodwork, and domestic rooms giving a strong sense of the town's prosperous 19th-century tobacco era.
Inside, the displays move through household objects, costumes, tools, photographs, and local craft. It is the right first stop before wandering the old town, because it helps explain the mix of urban wealth, Balkan domestic architecture, and Thracian identity that makes Xanthi feel different from many Greek provincial towns.