Next to the Church of Agios Dimitrios, during the Turkish occupation, a two-story building (1754) was built as the residence of the respective Metropolitan. Today, the aforementioned building together with the forecourt of the Temple house the Byzantine Museum of Mystras, whose exhibits include frescoes, icons, inscriptions and sculptures from the archaeological site of the so-called dead state.
The most important exhibits of the museum are:
- Women's dresses and women's gowns
- Marble slab of the 14th century, which comes from the floor of the temple of Peribleptos and represents the Ascension of Alexander the Great.
- Two parts of an iconostasis from the temple of Peripleptos of Mystras with the inscription ZAMPEA DE LEZINAO
- Marble shrine with Christ which has been rendered with a combination of relief and incised technique.
- Two tombstones with monograms of the Kantakouzen family, who were Despots of Mystras from 1348 to 1384 and which probably come from a pseudo-sarcophagus.
- Three manuscript codices of the I. Metropolis of Monemvasia and Sparta dating to the late Byzantine and post-Byzantine times.
Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou