Thessaloniki Welcome Walk & Admission to Byzantine Museum

From EUR €25.00
  • Duration: 1 Hours (approx.)
  • Location: Thessaloniki

Get an introduction to Thessaloniki from a local host on a 45-minute guided walk. Stop to try some local pastry delicacies. Later, skip the lines at the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki and explore the collections on your own. The tickets are valid for 1 day. There you can discover the art and culture of the byzantine times. 

Opening in 1994, the museum currently has 11 (as of 2017) permanent exhibitions. The first, "Early Christian Churches", focuses on the design and decoration of churches in early centuries of Christianity. "Early Christian Cities and Dwellings", presents aspects of economic life, domestic handicrafts, houses, and food and clothing of early Christians.

Finally, "From the Elysian Fields to the Christian Paradise" focuses on cemeteries of early Christians, jewellery, sepulchral architecture and painting, cult customs, and clay and glass objects recovered from excavated graves.