Byzantine and Christian Museum

Regional Unit of Central Athens

Byzantine and Christian Museum (Athens) offers a large, well-curated survey of Byzantine art and Eastern Christian material culture—icons, manuscripts, liturgical objects, textiles, and decorative arts—making it one of the city’s core museums for understanding Byzantium. Because the collections are extensive, it is efficient to decide in advance which periods or themes you most want (early Christian, middle/late Byzantine, post-Byzantine) and allocate extra time if you enjoy close reading of labels.

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