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The Municipal Gallery, or the Museum of History & Art of the Municipality of the Holy City of Messolonghi, unfolds the grandeur of a very beautiful neoclassical building full of unique works of art. A jewel of the city and a point of reference for every visitor, it permanently hosts a collection of paintings by Greek and foreign painters of the 19th and 20th century, inspired by the history of the Holy City of Messolonghi, personal items, manuscripts, lithographs and various objects related to the struggle for freedom of the genus of 1821 and the history of the place. During the tour of the Municipal Gallery, you will admire the (original) valuable work of the French painter Emile de Lasanc, "The mother's sacrifice". Copy of the image, "The Exodus of Messolonghi" by Theodoros Vryzakis from Angelos Kasolas. The impressive painting "Greece in the ruins of Messolonghi", a copy by Eugène Delacroix. Copy of the painting "The Attack of Ibrahim" by Giuseppe Pietro Mazzola, from Ioannis Kasolas, based on a copperplate by Jean-Charles Langlois. Copy "The arrival of Lord Byron in Messolonghi" by Giannis Kasolas of the original work of Theodoros Vryzakis. Copies of paintings by the Englishman Philhellene and poet Lord Byron from his travels in several parts of Greece. Three original pages of the "Greek Chronicles" of Mayer, the first Greek newspaper that was printed in besieged Messolonghi, objects of Byron, who died in Messolonghi, the original poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (The Pilgrimage of Childe Harold). An original painting with a portrait of the English adventurer and author Edward John Trelawny, a follower of Lord Byron, from an unknown artist. Portraits of city mayors from 1857 until 1978, works by Messolonghi painters Gerasimos and Giannis Kasolas. Documents and objects from the twinning of the city of Messolonghi with the city of Gendling of Lord Byron. Ecclesiastical objects, such as the chalice and the holy cross of Metropolitan Joseph Rogon and documents from the twinning of Messolonghi with the city of Sheflinsdorf, the birthplace of the publisher of the first newspaper in liberated Greece (Greek Chronicles), Johann Jacob Mayer. Weapons, objects and copies of Greek and Philhellenic fighters, busts of the Messolonghi prime ministers, engravings, maps, coins, medals, traditional costumes, and post-Byzantine icons.
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