The Byzantine Museum, is the largest and most charming museum of the island, opened in 1960, and is housed in the large building at Solomos Square of Zakynthos Town.
Split on three levels, the museum includes a collection of Byzantine icons, wood carvings, a series of frescoes dating from the 15th, 16th and 17th-century. Visitors will also find paintings, ecclesiastical clothes, photos of Zakynthos before the earthquake of 1953 and paintings of artists like Doxaras and Kantouni, among others.
The special importance of this museum is eventually due to the opportunity that the tourist has to appreciate the pictures and plastics reproducing the city before the earthquake besides the artistic evolution from the post Byzantine period to the contemporary Greek art.