Kastoria Monuments Museum ( el, Μουσείο Μνημείων Καστοριάς) is a private museum that displays scale models of the monuments of

Kastoria Kastoria ( el, Καστοριά, ''Kastoriá'' ) is a city in northern Greece in the modern regions of Greece, region of Western Macedonia. It is the capital of Kastoria (regional unit), Kastoria regional unit, in the Geographic regions of Gree ...

, Greece. It is located on the ground floor of an apartment building on the shore of

Kastoria lake Lake Orestiada or Lake of Kastoria ( el, Λίμνη Ορεστιάδα) is a lake in the Kastoria regional unit of Macedonia, northwestern Greece. Sitting at an altitude of 630 metres, the lake covers an area of 28 square kilometres. Nine rivul ...

History

For many years, Nikos Pistikos devoted his free time to making scale models of the monuments of Kastoria out of a variety of materials, having first carried out on-the-spot investigations, taken measurements so that his models would be to scale, and photographed each building so that he could reproduce its distinctive features and details.Museums of Macedonia Out of love for art and for the city of

, Pistikos began to display his work to the public in 1991, at 89 Megalou Alexandrou Street. The museum includes models of old town houses,

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

churches, the

monasteries A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which ...

of the surrounding area, the lakeside settlement at

Dispilio Dispilio ( el, Δισπηλιό) is a village near Lake Orestiada, in the Kastoria regional unit of Western Macedonia, Greece. Near the village is an archaeological site containing remains of a Neolithic lakeshore settlement that occupied an art ...

, a model of the entire city and copies of the vitraux, the colourful stained glass that adorned the old town houses in Kastoria. Early in 2000, the museum was scheduled to move to the Kastor Hotel at the entrance to the city. Today located, beside to

Byzantine Museum of Kastoria The Byzantine Museum of Kastoria is a museum in Kastoria, Macedonia, Greece, dedicated to religious art from the area's late Byzantine and post-Byzantine periods. Description The museum stands at the highest point of the city, in Dexamenis Squa ...

, at 14 Northern Epirus Street.

Gallery

;Old museum gallery File:Macedonian Museums-20-Mouseio Pistikou-96.jpg, Outside view File:Macedonian_Museums-20-Mouseio_Pistikou-97.jpg, Copies of the vitraux and Byzantine churches File:Macedonian_Museums-20-Mouseio_Pistikou-98.jpg, Old town houses of Kastoria File:Macedonian_Museums-20-Mouseio_Pistikou-99.jpg, Old town house of Kastoria

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* Museums in Kastoria Scale model collections Museums established in 1991 1991 establishments in Greece