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

The Byzantine Museum of Chios was opened in 1980. In its collection there are artifacts found during the archeological excavations in Chios, as well as unique artifacts donated to the Museum from private collections. The Museum covers a very broad period of time from the early Christian era and until the post-Byzantine period (5th to 18th century).

In the collection of the Byzantine Museum presents various architectural fragments, sculpture, headstone with Muslim and Jewish tombs, wall paintings, icons and other religious relics, ceramics, prints and more. Among the most interesting exhibits of the Museum is to provide a mural of Michael Kumazasa (1734) with the image of three sleeping daughters (a scene from "the miracles of St. Nicholas from the Church of the virgin Krina, and two large marble slabs with relief depiction of the battle of St. George with the dragon" (refer to the Renaissance). The great interest represents a superb collection of sculptures Genoese period (1345-1566) and five cannons of iron and brass from the fortress of Chios, Dating back to the 17th century (one of the guns, probably imported from France, as it is engraved the coat of arms of French kings). There in the Museum is a great copy of the famous painting famous French painter Eugene Delacroix's "Massacre at Chios".

Despite the relatively small size of the exhibition space, the collection of the Byzantine Museum of Chios is rich and diverse. A visit to this Museum would take a lot of pleasure of lovers of antiquities.