Nicosia - Byzantine Museum

The Byzantine Museum in Nicosia houses the most significant and representative collection of Byzantine art on the island. The museum is located in a side wing of the Archbishop’s Palace and offers visitors a journey through Cyprus’s religious and cultural heritage.

The reconstruction of the fresco

The Root of Jesse

which originally adorned the walls of the Monastery of Antiphonitis in Northern Cyprus.

Following the conflict of 1974, the fresco was cut into numerous pieces by antiquities smugglers and illegally taken out of the country. After years of efforts and legal battles, many of these pieces were recovered from private collections abroad.