In the Vária district on the southern outskirts of the town of Mytilíni are two interesting museums. The first, devoted to the naïve painter Theofilos, was founded by Stratis Eleftheriadis (1897-1983), a native of Mytilíni who worked in Paris as an art writer, publisher and patron under the name of Tériade. He also founded in 1979 the neighboring Tériade Museum, which contains works by modern artists, including Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso.