Interiors redesign and fitting of the Byzantine Museum of Kastoria for its improvement

The Byzantine Museum of Kastoria, which occupies premises built in 1985, was inaugurated in 1989. Between 1989 and 2013 it housed an ‘interim’ exhibition in one of its three galleries. Due to its temporary nature, that exhibition had certain basic weaknesses and deficiencies, mainly in supplementary material and interpretive approach. As a result, it did nothing to project the importance, the fame and the influence of the celebrated medieval city of Kastoria, or its unique wealth of splendid icons.
The new exhibition material focuses mainly on panel icons and sanctuary doors, of which there are seventy-five (75); there are also five (5) fragments of frescoes, and thirty (30) other items, examples of the minor arts.

The project that enabled the development of the new exhibition included the following activities:
- Construction activities such as demolition, wall-building, works to provide access to people with disabilities
- Machinery and electrical installations
- Procurement of electronic equipment
- Conversion of storage spaces to exhibition spaces
- Creation of new conservation laboratories for icons and frescos
The project targeted not only to the local population of Kastoria but also to attract artists, scientists, visitors, associations etc. outside the program area, including the population of the cross-border area in fYROM and Albania, as well as tourists; national and international.