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Florina Byzantine Museum

The museum is housed in a two-storey building that was constructed in 1969 and renovated internally in 1999.It has prehistoric, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine finds from the Florina area.On the ground floor are the prehistoric finds, chiefly from the excavations carried out in 1997–8 at Armenohori, but also from other excavations.There are also exhibits of the Byzantine and post-Byzantine period from the Prespa area, chiefly the basilica of Agios Ahillios (capitals, chancel screen closure panels, chancel screen colonnettes), frescoes from various churches, parts of a wood-carved chancel screen from the hermitage of the Transfiguration (Metamorfossi), and an Vema door from the Church of Agios Athanassios in the community of Agios Germanos (16th cent.).

Florina Museum of Modern Art

The Florina Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Florina in Greece.It was founded by the Florina Art Centre in 1977.It is housed in a neoclassical building by the Skouleva river.The museum's collection is composed of 480 works by 254 artists, which includes paintings, sculptures and engravings.More recently its collection was enriched by a work of El Greco donated by the national Gallery as well as by 44 engravings from Florence.These are in display since August 1999.Apart from its permanent exhibition, the museum also organizes art symposia and exhibitions of visual and applied art.

March - June

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