Thessaloniki Museums

Chania has many museums and attractions to see, however it’s a good idea think ahead an itinerary before a visit. Most tourists only have a limited amount time in any city/country, so they have to be aware of good places to visit, because the time is essential for them.

Located on Thessaloniki's waterfront boulevard, the museum is dedicated to preservation and of Byzantine Culture. Its collections include sculptures, frescoes, mosaics, coins and inscriptions, as well as a wide variety of orthodox religious icons from the 14th-18th centuries.

Museum of Byzantine Culture - Thessaloniki.

The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was born in a house on Apostolou Pavlov. In 1935 Thessaloniki City Council gave his home to the Turkish State and it was converted into a museum. The building has three floors and a courtyard. The most of its furniture is authentic. There are photographs on all Kemal’s walls at various periods of his life.

The building has four rooms on the ground floor and the most impressive on the 2nd floor is the one in which Kemal was born, a large room with a banquette, his desk, and a large brazier. It faces another room, in which some of Kemal’s personal effects from Ankara are displayed. These include formal dress, smoking requisites, cutlery, cups, and other items. All the documents relating to Kemal’s schooldays have been hung on the walls. A pomegranate tree planted by Kemal’s father still grows in the courtyard.

The museum opened in Yefira village on 26 October 1999. It dedicates to Balkan Wars history and was built near village entrance at the end of nineteenth century. The museum occupies a two-storey building. All the furniture is authentic and has been supplemented by furniture which the army had previously kept. The room in which Commander-in-Chief Constantine spent the night contains all the furniture which he actually used.

The exhibits consist of photographs and lithographs of the wars of 1912-13. Of particular note are four paintings by Kenan Messare, who was the son of the Pasha of Thessaloniki who surrendered the city to the Greeks, and went with Constantine on the Epirus campaign and into the Second Balkan War. They depict scenes from the Battle of Lahanas during the Second Balkan War.

Balkan Wars Museum has a very large collection of Greek, Bulgarian, and Turkish weapons, including Greek and Bulgarian Mannlicher rifles, a Turkish Mauser, a Greek Mannlicher pistol, Turkish Mauser and Smith & Wesson pistols, a Greek Schwarzrose M1907/12 machine-gun, and the whole range of swords used by the Greek and the Bulgarian army.

Railway museum is situated on the border of Eleftherion Borough in west Thessaloniki. It is housed in a building which used to be a military station dates back from 1894. In 1986 OSE (the Greek Railways Organization) gave the derelict and unused station to the Friends of the Railway Society so that the Railway Museum could be established. The museum opened its doors to the public in October 2000.

The museum has a map with all Greek railway lines marked on it, railway workers’ uniforms, railway workmen’s tools, personal belongings, technical manuals and details of all old steam engines and diesel engines belonging to the Greek railways. Also it contains some of the furnishings from the carriages of the former Greek royal family. In the museum courtyard there is a restaurant carriage from the renowned Orient Express, which is open to visitors.

The museum was opened in 1981 in a Neoclassical building in the centre of Thessaloniki, financed by the national benefactor Andreas Syngros. The museum is privately owned and is run by the Association of Friends of the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle

The most important exhibits are the weaponry, the uniforms, the memorabilia, and the personal effects of the leaders of the Macedonian Struggle, numerous other uniforms, and a collection of 1,350 contemporary photographs as well as explanatory maps, books, newspapers, and paintings of the Macedonian landscape in the late 19th and early 20th century. The exhibits occupy seven rooms and are grouped as follows: Macedonia before the outbreak of the Struggle; the struggle in western Macedonia; the consulate and the organisation of Thessaloniki; the office of the consul Lambros Koromilas; the role of the people of Macedonia in the Struggle; the Struggle in central and eastern Macedonia; the Struggle in the Yannitsa marshes; and the events in Macedonia after the end of the Struggle and the revolution of young Turks.

Also the museum offers guided tours (booked in advance) and educational games. There is also a lending department for photographic displays and video films.

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