Founded in 1888, this venerable museum houses the best collection of archaeological finds in Cyprus, covering the Neolithic to the Byzantine periods....

Most curators would swoon if given stewardship of this museum, which is literally overflowing with an embarrassment of riches. Many of the exhibits are now...

Boasting more than 150 sculpted models, the Fatsa Museum waxes lyrical on eras and episodes of Cypriot life and history, from the Neolithic period to the...

The Rural Museum comprises two stone-built 16th-century houses, the House of Katsiniourou and the House of Achilleas Dimitri. Meticulous reconstructions,...

Kept in a faithfully preserved traditional house, this quaint collection of more than 500 original artefacts from the last 200 years includes examples of...

Set in an 18th-century building on the harbour front, the museum's permanent exhibits include olive presses, ploughs, weaving looms and jugs. The top floor...

Essentially consisting of two large rooms, carefully laid out with items used in Cypriot crafts such as shoe making, distilling roses and working the loom,...

The Kykkos museum houses an extensive collection of objects, ranging from antiquities of the Copper Age through to post-Byzantine ecclesiastical silver...

Exhibits include findings from the Larnaka area's main Neolithic settlements of Choirokitia and Tenta. The pottery, ivory and alabaster exhibits provide...

Inside the fort at the southern end of the Phinikoudes, this small museum contains displays from the early Christian, Byzantine, Lusignan and Ottoman...

The first historical museum of Cyprus documents Nicosia's 6,000-year history through a series of permanent exhibitions. Its collection of archaeological...

This atmospheric little museum is housed inside a 13th-century castle whose main claim to fame is that it stands on the site of the castle where, in 1191,...

Arab Ahmet Pasha, a member of the Mevlevi order (also called the whirling dervishes), constructed this gold-domed building at the end of the 16th century,...

Located next to the Ethnographic Museum, in the side wing of the old Archbishop's Palace, the museum documents the island's liberation struggle against...