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Folk Art Museum

Posted under Kyrenia on Sunday, 25 October 2009 by Lavinia Neville Smith
Folk Art Museum | Kyrenia The main entrance to the Folk Art Museum is from the harbour. Formerly a granary or carob store it was owned by Lady Loch, a well known Cyprus benefactor, and donated to the Antiquities department to be used as a museum. The interior has been laid out in the style of a...
Folk Art Museum

Icon Museum

Posted under Kyrenia on Sunday, 25 October 2009 by Lavinia Neville Smith
Icon Museum | Kyrenia At the western end of the harbour is the church of the Archangel Michael. Dating from the end of the 19th C, it was constructed on an eminence upon which one of the original towers of the old town walls was built. It is of little architectural merit but was opened in 1990 as...
Icon Museum

The Shipwreck Museum

Posted under Kyrenia on Sunday, 25 October 2009 by Lavinia Neville Smith
The Shipwreck Museum | Kyrenia Containing the oldest wreck ever to be raised from the sea bed, this museum provides a fascinating look at maritime trading practises of a time long before the birth of Christ. The ship was found by a local sponge diver in the mid sixties and was raised from the sea...
The Shipwreck Museum