The work of this research is the analysis of an architectural creation which vocabulary is closely related to mine. Examining the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki, Through meticulous observation of the spaces which comprise the experience of its guests, this research is attempting to understand the wisdom which materialized through it.

Soon enough i understood that i wouldn’t understand the museum if i didn’t understood its architect. So the first part of this research dives into what influenced Kyriakos Krokos, the architect of the museum, into gaining his architectural vocabulary. The place of his childhood, the context in which he experienced that place, its tradition, the art he produced, became an objective to understand them. Later on, the influence he gained by his stay in Athens and the impact of the education he received in university, contradictory to his previous way of life in Samos. Later on in his self-study, when he decided to move to Paris to further educate himself, lead to his encounter with Tsarouchis, a great artist of Greece, who influenced him, advancing him in the way he creates art and by extension, architecture.

Carrying on through the way the museum was conceptualized and materialised, to the analysis of museum itself, its materials and their relation, their contrast. Examining the typology of the exhibition spaces in detail and their variations.

In the last part the research includes the detailed analysis of the spaces and their experience by my vocabulary. An analysis that revolves through the approach to the museum, entering it and its atrium’s and finally getting inside the building. Spaces such as the main hall but especially the course which unites the exhibition spaces, analysing them one by one as well as the course itself until it comes to its end.