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Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum - 10-30-2008, 11:11 PM


Name: Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum
Location: 4011 Yupon
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Website: Here
History: These 13th-century masterworks were stolen from a chapel in a Turkish-occupied town of Lysi, Cyprus and cut into pieces. The Menil Foundation rescued and restored the works and they are now on long-term loan from the Church of Cyprus.
Interesting Tidbits: only Byzantine wall frescoes in the Western Hemisphere
Photog Friendly: Unknown

open Friday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
admission free
(713) 521-3990

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notes from 02/22/09 visit...

website: http://www.menil.org/visit/byzantine.php

hours: Wed-Sun, 11:00-6:00

Photog friendly: no photography inside

Observations: a must see
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