One of the most interesting museums in the city of Chios (capital of the island of the same name) is considered to be the Byzantine Museum. It is located in the central square of the city in an old Turkish mosque, which was built in the second half of the 19th century in honor of the Sultan Abdul-Majid and is an important historical monument.

Chios Byzantine Museum was opened in 1980. His collection includes artifacts found during archaeological excavations on Chios, as well as unique artifacts donated to the museum from private collections. The museum exposition covers a very extensive period of time, starting from the early Christian era to the post-Byzantine period (5th to 18th centuries).

The collection of the Byzantine Museum presents various architectural fragments, sculptures, tombstones from Muslim and Jewish graves, wall paintings, icons and other religious relics, ceramics, prints and much more .  Among the most interesting exhibits of the museum is to provide a mural Michael Homatsasa (1734), featuring three sleeping girls (a scene from the "miracles of Saint Nicholas") of the Church of the Virgin Crean, and two large marble slabs with relief image of the "Battle of St. George the dragon" ( refer to the Renaissance) .  Huge interest is a magnificent collection of sculptures of the Genoese period (1345-1566) and five guns of iron and brass from the fortress of Chios, dating from the 17th century (one of the guns, probably brought from France, since it is engraved with the emblem of the French kings) .  There is in the museum and excellent copy of the famous painting by the famous French painter Eugene Delacroix "Massacre at Chios" .

Despite the relatively small size of the exhibition space collection of the Byzantine Museum in Chios is rich and diverse. Visiting this museum is sure to bring a lot of fun lovers of antiquities.