Byzantine Museum of Veria

The Byzantine Museum of Veria is housed in Markos Mylos, a recently

renovated industrial building of the early 20th century, located in the
neighborhood of the preserved district of Kyriotissa, housing elements of
the Byzantine civilization of the time
The permanent exhibition material includes part of the rich collection of
portable icons, frescoes from the temples and secular buildings, mosaic
floors, manuscripts and statuettes, pottery and miniature crafts, coins and
wood carvings, burial finds, architectural sculptures and marble
inscriptions.
The goals that the new museum seeks to achieve are determined in the
light of the physiognomy of modern society, which requires it to combine
all the traditional values of the museum as an organization, with an interest
in active and two-way cooperation with all social actors. The museological
program is based on the idea of a museum with a regional character, which
will refer to the culture of all Central and Western Macedonia, while
completing the collections of Thessaloniki.
More specifically, the Exhibition on the first floor with which the museum
was inaugurated, presents the main elements of Byzantine culture through
the example of Veria, a city of the region of autocracy with significant
history and remarkable monumental wealth. The main axis of the
organization of the exhibited material is the various cultural relations
between Veria and the major centers of the Byzantine world, such as
Constantinople and
Thessaloniki, as well as with
the cities of the nearest
Macedonian area.
Finally, emphasis is placed on
the contribution of human
resources, artists, whose
movements have contributed
to the dissemination of the
ideals, aesthetic values and the
ideological movements of the
Empire.