The collection of Jan and Meda Mládek contains works made by Frantisek Kupka and Otto Gutfreund and modern arts of the 60th, 70th and 80th years. Collection of Jindřich Chalupecký was created between years 1988-1989 to help sick author. It contains the works of Czech and Slovak authors mostly from the 70th and 80 years. Collection of Jiří and Běla Kolář was originally a private set without thematic focus. It includes works from various time periods and Czech and foreign authors.

244 paper, religious engravings donated to Museum of Byzantine Culture by Dori Papastratou

The Special Collection comprises digital reprints of the Institute's old and rare books in Greek and other European languages. Most of the 302 titles are traveller’s accounts or works on the history, civilisation, folk life, religion and literature of the Hellenic and Balkan region. The oldest and rarest book in the collection is a 1604 edition of the 'Histoire de Georges Castriot Surnomé Scanderbeg, Roy d’Albanie', written (in French) by Jacques de Lavardin and printed at Saint-Gervais.

With focus on (starting point) the iconographic theme of the Annunciation of the Mother of God, the virtual museum includes relevant (significant) population of data on the overall documentation of artworks from the historical, iconographic, symbolic, aesthetical, stylistic and technical point of view.The documentation of artworks includes:1. Multispectral images:• Macrophotographs (in the visible and ultraviolet)• Microphotographs of surface and cross-section (in the visible and ultraviolet)• Infrared reflectograms• X-Radiographs2. Spectroscopic and analytical data of materials3. Texts that organise and correlate the technical information in a comprehensive synthesis for the understanding and promotion of icons with their double substance, as works of art and as liturgical objects for worship.

The collection includes rare photographs and postal cards from the period 1904-1918. Subjects cover mainly the military conflicts, which devastated Macedonia in the beginning of the 20th c., the Fighters (Makedonomachoi) and several battles that took place during the Balkan Wars and the World War I. The collection is an important source of military history.

The collection includes rare photographs, some of which were published in the early 1900s. A variety of subjects is being illustrated: Greeks and Bulgarians, the stars of the military encounters known as the Macedonian Struggle. Representatives of the Youngturkish movement, important historical events such as the Ilinden uprising, the Macedonian Struggle, the Youngturkish movement, the Balkan Wars, World War I etc. In addition, the collection illustrates some least known but shcoking events of the time like the Abbot kidnapping, the Simota Case, the Chevallier Case etc. The collection is an exceptional sample of the topography and the anthropography of that time.

The "Anna Komnene" digital collection features archaeological sites, monuments and building complexes from all periods of Byzantine history and from all the major centres of the Byzantine world. In Greece, it covers sites in the regions of Attica, Thessaloniki and Mystra, and elsewhere in regions of Armenia, Algeria, FYROM, Georgia, Jordan, Cyprus, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Tunisia – highlighting the wide sphere of influence of Byzantine culture both in the Mediterranean area and its surrounding regions and in other parts of the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa.The common point of reference linking all these historic sites and buildings is their artistic quality (in terms of architecture and decoration). Most of them are included in the UNESCO world heritage list. The various types and styles of building represent practically every phase in Byzantine architectural history, while their distribution across the whole area of Byzantine influence and their styles of decoration (painting, etc.) offer examples of some of the most sublime moments in Byzantine art.

The collection includes postal cards from the period 1904-1918. They depict places of Macedonia, economic activities of the rural population and portraits of Macedonian Fighters (Makedonomachoi). Most of the postal cards have notes in French.

The collection comprises 402 maps showing the region of SE Europe (Greece, Asia Minor, Serbia, Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey etc.) during Antiquity, the Roman and Byzantine Empire, Middle Ages, Ottoman Empire and 20th century.

The photographic material of the archive emanates from various sources. The main subject of the collection is Greek Vlachs, whereas an important part includes the unknown -until recently- artistic creations of brothers Manakia, the photographers who were the pioneers of the cinema in the Balkans. The collection depicts scenes from the late 19th and the early of the 20th century; included are photographs of typical patters of settlements and Vlah population around 1900. Considering the collection as a total, helps reversing several stereotypical theories as well as understanding the various cultural, social and economic identities of the Vlach populations.

The photographs depict the period of military conflicts in Macedonia during 1904-1908. Available is also photographic material from the First Balkan War (1912). There are pictures of cultural and musical associations of Macedonia, as well as of social and school activities. The majority of the photographs portrays military guerrilla groups and portraits of Greek Macedonian Fighters (Makedonomachoi).

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