The FamilyManos Faltaits (1938-2012)
Son of the renowned Greek journalist, author and researcher Kostas Faltaits, Manos Faltaits was born in Athens on 3 January 1983. He was a man with great political, cultural and artistic action and was honored by the Academy of Athens in recognition of his contribution to the preservation of the Greek cultural tradition. He founded the museum in 1964.
Anastasia Faltaits
Anastasia Faltaits was born in Chania in 1938. For many years and until 1979 she taught at the Panteion University at the post of the professor in Political History of modern Greece and published historical essays on modern Greek history.
Konstantinos Faltaits (1891-1944)
Konstantinos Faltaits, the father of the founder of Faltaits museum, was a prominent journalist, writer and pioneer researcher of the mid-war period (1913 - 1944). He was one of the first members of Journalist's Union of Athens Daily Newspapers and a war correspondent during the Balkan wars and the Asia Minor Campaign and Catastrophe. He is considered a pioneer researcher of Rebetiko and of Roma. He has also contributed for the salvation of Papadiamantis' work - some of whose manuscripts are exhibited in the museum.
Other family members
Georgantis Faltagis, Georgis Grimaldi, Dimitrios Faltaits, Anna, Maria and Ephrosyni Faltaits were some of the people that molded the personality of Manos Faltaits and contributed to the conception and implementation of the idea for creating this museum.
