The Byzantine Museum of Cyprus in Nicosia was founded with the aim of saving Byzantine icons from decay and illegal trafficking and today it preserves the largest and most significant collection of Byzantine art in Cyprus. In the museum are exhibited about 230 works and 48 icons dating back to the period between the ninth and nineteenth centuries divided into three large rooms structured in temporal order.
In this way you can see the evolution of icons and the influences they underwent from the Italian and Venetian Renaissance. Also on display are frescoes, ecclesiastical utensils, manuscripts and fragments of seven 6th century mosaics from the apse of the church of Panagia Kanakarias in Lytrangomi.
