Byzantine Museum of Antivouniotissa — Attraction in Municipality of Central Corfu and Diapontia Islands

A religious theme museum, orthodox in fact, organised in an old church.

The museum is very well hidden between the houses. You can see the entrance from the main road but to go there you have to climb a few (more) stairs.

If you intend to go by car, there is no way to find a parking place near the museum only if you are lucky enough someone to leave in the moment you are just near him, by merci of God. I would recommend you to park the car at the parking located in the front of the Old fortress and to have a 10 - 60 minutes of walk through the Old City.

I wrote 60 minutes because the road to "those saints" (to the museum) is full of temptations, as you walk on the streets full of shops from the Old City.

If you finally reach the museum, with at least 4 EUR in your pocket or credit card, then you will be able to buy a ticket. To buy a ticket you have to go somewhere behind the museum but you have to pass through the museum. There is a young lady and she will tell you where to go to buy the tickets.

The museum is in the building of an old church. The walls are full of paintings, religious paintings. There are labels with explanations written in greek language and in english language.

The museum is not bigger than a church of medium size, it has a semi-circular hall on the outside wich is full of paintings. You can climb a stair and see the interior church from the top, from first level (second level for brothers across the ocean).

At the end of the visit and if you parked the car where I recommend you and if you want to avoid "temptations" from the Old City, you can take the main road. There are 2 very nice restaurants, placed on the water from where the view is beautiful.

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This museum, which opened in 1984, is housed in the converted church of Panagia Antivounitissa. One of the town’s oldest buildings, it is responsible for some of the museum’s finest exhibits.

The small museum takes a bit of finding but the number of magnificent icons on display, dating from the 15th to the 18th centuries, are worth the effort. Many are by artists from the Cretan School who worked and lived on Corfu as the island was a convenient stopping-off point on the journey between Crete and Venice from the 13th to the 17th centuries during Venetian rule, especially after Crete fell to...

Contains the Byzantine Museum. Beautiful exhibits in a beautiful building. Although this sea-front museum in the Old Town doesn't provide much background information or explanation about the religious paintings and artefacts that make up this exhibition, it is worth seeing them as they are mostly stunning and the church that houses them is peaceful and subtly beautiful. Despite the Byzantine Museum tag, the exhibits seem to date from a post Byzantine era when Corfu was Venetian-occupied; but that could be my misunderstanding as it is...