Location information

The Archaeological Museum of Mystras

  This museum was inaugurated in 1951 and housed in a two-storeyed building located in the northern section of the Cathedral of Agios Demetrios. It hosts a significant number of collections incorporating sculpture, pottery, coins, church icons, pieces of vestments, frescoes and various miniature works.
  Among the items exhibited are:
•Two sections of the epistyle of the iconostasis from the Pantanassa Church
•Marble Proskynetarion with relief representation of Christ (15 c. A.D.)
•Parapets and epistyles of an iconostasis of the Kantakouzenos family.
•Post-Byzantine icon representing St. John Chrysostomos (by Th. Poulakis)
•The icon of Christ "the Vine of Life", a work by Victor

This text is cited May 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs URL below.

• http://www.mfa.gr/english/greece/through_time/arch...