Museum of Byzantine Culture

A 70-year-old woman was arrested on Saturday by officers of the police's Department of Cultural Heritage and Antiquities in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, after ancient objects and religious icons were found at her workplace and home.

Delving into this year's International Museum Day theme of sustainability and how cultural institutions are affected by climate change and can contribute to combatting its effects, the Museum of Byzantine Culture (mbp.gr) presents a two-part exhibition, "Phoenix - Agon," which casts artifacts beside modern works of art.

The five staff unions of the Culture Ministry said on Tuesday they intend to continue their labor action against a law altering the operation of Greece's five major state-run museums (the National Archaeological Museum, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Museum of Byzantine Culture), and announced a work stoppage for Wednes

The digital imaging of thousands of relics and manuscripts kept in monasteries on Mount Athos in northern Greece has been completed as part of the Athonite Digital Ark project after a process lasting two-and-a-half years.

The Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki is currently showing "Two Collections Meet," its first exhibition of icons, liturgical items, vestments and holy relics in many years, MBC director Agathoniki Tsilipakou tells Kathimerini.

The Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki presents an exhibition comprising icons, vestments and precious heirlooms on loan from the northern port city's Municipal Art Gallery. The items are shown alongside texts which present and explain the most recent findings on Byzantine painting in northern Greece, and especially Thessaloniki, Mount Athos and Central and Western Macedonia.

In "Rough Seas Around Europe," the Museum of Byzantine Culture presents satirical maps from the collection of Panagiotis Soukakos, an orthopedic professor and cartography enthusiast. This category of maps first emerged in 1850 and were used during the Belle Epoque and World War I as a propaganda tool.

In 1914, the writer Nikos Kazantzakis visited Mount Athos with his friend the poet Angelos Sikelianos.

It has been a rich archeological year for the National Museum of History. 

The Museum will be closed with a large exhibition that includes all the gold and silver treasures discovered by the museum archaeologists.

The exhibition presents what have been found in 8 archaeological sites, and the most anticipated among them is a pot, full with gold and silver coins. 

"Memories of Monuments" at the Museum of Byzantine Culture brings together original photographs from the Christos Kalemkeris Photography Museum of Athenian monuments captured by some of the first Greek and foreign photographers to turn their lens to the capital's antiquities.