Byzantine Museum of Chios

Byzantine Museum of Chios changed into created in 1980 and is positioned near the main metropolis square Vounaki square. Even the building of the museum is of awesome interest. It is a former Ottoman mosque, known as Mecidiye mosque and turned into constructed in the 19th century by using sultan Abdul Mecid. The mosque as a monument and the exhibition of the museum coexit and praise each different. During the years 2006 to 2010 the museum remained closed due to maintenance being made on the constructing. During this era, its archaeological exhibition changed into re-organised.

There are early Christian and Byzantine sculptures uncovered on the museum yard however additionally from the Genoese and Ottoman period. There also are Jewish tombstones and canons of the 17th century, fabricated from iron and brass. The primary corridor, which isn't always but reachable to the general public, due to healing, there are Byzantine and publish Byzantine work of art, Early Christian, Byzantine, Genoese and famous art sculptures and inscriptions, Post-Byzantine icons, Post-Byzantine and popular artwork ceramics, fabrics and wooden-carvings. The maximum essential objects of the existing exhibition are a mural with the aid of Michael Chomatzas dated 1734 depicting three dozing ladies a scene from the miracles of St. Nicholas.