Museum of Byzantine Culture

Thessaloniki

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Timings : Summer (April 1 - October 31): Wednesday to Monday - 08:00 AM to 08:00 PM
Winter (November 1 - March 31): Wednesday to Monday - 08:30 AM to 03:30 PM

Tuesdays closed.
Good Friday: 12:00 PM to 05:00 PM
Holy Saturday: 08:00 AM to 03:00 PM
Closed on 25th and 26th December, 1st January, 25th March, Easter Sunday, and 1st May.

Ticket Price : Main Ticket for Museum: EUR 8
Reduced Ticket for Museum (Senior citizens over 65 years of age and children and young people between 6 and 25 years of age from outside the European Union): EUR 4
Main Ticket for White Tower: EUR 6
Reduced Ticket for White Tower (Senior citizens over 65 years of age and children and young people between 6 and 25 years of age from outside the European Union): EUR 3
Ticket price from 1st November to 31st March for the museum is EUR 4 and for White Tower is EUR 3 (Entry is free on the first Sunday of every month during this period)
Combined ticket (with three other sites): EUR 15
Free entry for children and young people under 25 years of age (from EU nations) and children under 5 years (outside EU nations).

Free Entry Days : OXI Day (National Holiday) - 28th October
International Day of Monuments - 18th April
International Day of Museums - 18th May
European Days of Cultural Heritage - Last weekend of September
Memorial Day of Melina Mercouri - 6th March

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Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki Overview

Located on Stratou Avenue, the Museum of Byzantine Culture takes visitors on a journey in time through the 11 galleries of permanent exhibitions. From the early to middle Byzantine period to the Ottoman occupation, the artefacts, coins, seals, and paintings on display at the museum tell the story of the country’s past in detail.

The first and second gallery shows the rise of Christianity with the new Byzantine empire, the third room is about burial rites and tombstones, room four has everyday Macedonian items on display, while rooms five and six are for the Byzantine empires and the castles built during that time. Room seven highlights the ‘Twilight of Byzantium’, followed by the Dori Papastratos and Demetrios Economopoulos collections in rooms eight and nine. In rooms ten and eleven, visitors can see the legacy of Byzantium left behind in books, icons, gold and silver, prints, embroidery, and pottery. The museum opened in 1994 after a prolonged process that started with a nationwide architectural competition for the design of the building. It was won by multiple-time awardee Kyriakos Krokos.