Byzantine Museum and Art Gallery, Archbishop Makarios III Foundation

Church-of-Cyprus museum of icons and other Byzantine and post-Byzantine ecclesiastical art; it is not an antiquities collection.

Stylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016, p. 90

1. 1936
   112 icons were gathered in three rooms of the Church of Panagia Phaneromeni, Nicosia, the start of the collection later housed in the Byzantine Museum; the collection was studied by the Church Committee and G. Soteriou, who prepared a display plan (attributed there to Eliades 2008).

   NicosiaGeorgios M. SoteriouStylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016, p. 90

2. 1978
   Archbishop Chrysostomos I and President Spyros Kyprianou signed the founding act of the Cultural Centre of the Makarios III Foundation in Nicosia, from which the Byzantine Museum came into being.

   NicosiaArchbishop ChrysostomosStylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016, p. 90

3. 1989–1991
   The four Kanakaria apse mosaics (Christ Child, Archangel Michael and others), lost by Peg Goldberg at the 1989 Indianapolis trial and later shown in Indianapolis, arrived in Cyprus in early September 1991; Hofstadter saw them in a back room of the Byzantine Museum, Nicosia. The sources give the dates of the trial and the museum's custody only as Hofstadter reports them.

   NicosiaPeg GoldbergHofstadter 1994

• Four mosaics from the apse of the Panagia Kanakaria church (Christ Child, Archangel Michael and others)

  from Panagia Kanakaria church (apse)via Peg Goldberg1991Hofstadter 1994Hoover 1990, p. 11-12

• Icon of the Virgin Orans with Christ medallion (Blachernitissa type), found among the icons of Panagia Phaneromeni

  from Church of Panagia Phaneromeni, Nicosiavia Church of Panagia Phaneromeni, NicosiaStewart et al. 2014