The Wax Effigies Museum of Pavlos Vrellis is the result of thirteen years work of a single man: Pavlos Vrellis. The aim of the artist was to represent historical events from various regions of Greece. The exhibit includes figures and references from the period of antiquity to the disaster of Cyprus and Dame of Ro.

The artist was born in Ioannina on 03/25/1923. He became an orphan of father and mother at an early age, and grew up under the supervision of his mother’s sister, who took care of his upbringing and education. In 1947 he graduated from the Zosimaia Tutorial Academy of Ioannina and in 1954 from the School of Fine Arts. He worked primarily as a teacher at high schools and retired in 1983. Thereafte,r he was adsorbed with the work of the museum. He bought a rocky area of 17 acres in Bizani where he has worked unceasingly for 13 years. He shaped both the exterior and the interior space, while he designed the museum building as an urban fortress architecture of the interior of Epirus in the 18th century. The aim of the artist was to provide and represent historical events from various regions of Greece. In total, he has produced 36 different themes through which the recent history of Greece is presented.