Museum of Byzantine Culture

Thessaloniki Museums

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Thessaloniki Museums

Thessaloniki carries three thousand years of layered history, and its museums hold the proof in gold, mosaic, photograph, and film. The Archaeological Museum guards the Derveni Krater and the gold of the Macedonian kings, the Museum of Byzantine Culture reads the city’s long medieval prime, and the White Tower turns its own Ottoman shell into … Read more

The Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki

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The Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki

The Museum of Byzantine Culture holds the richest record of Byzantine art in northern Greece, gathered inside an award-winning brick building near the seafront of Thessaloniki. Its eleven permanent galleries trace the empire from the early Christian centuries to the years after the Ottoman conquest, through icons, mosaics, coins, and the painted tombs of the … Read more