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Byzantine Art Museum
Located within the complex of the Makarios Cultural Foundation, this museum has the island's largest collection of icons related to Cyprus. There are some 220 pieces in the museum, dating from the 5th to the 19th centuries.
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Chrysaliniotissa Crafts Centre
This small arts centre is worth dropping into for its display of Cypriot arts and crafts. Eight workshops and a coffee shop surround a central courtyard in a building designed along the lines of a traditional inn.
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Cyprus Classic Motorcycle Museum
Although this place attracts kids of all ages, it's a great stop to make with young ones, obsessed as they probably are with vehicles of all kinds. This is a private museum whose owner is more than happy to chat extensively about his collection. It may just keep the parents happy too.
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Cyprus Jewellery Museum
The small Cyprus Jewellery Museum in Laïki Yitonia presents the history of jewellery from the end of the 19th century to today. The exhibits include ornaments, religious items, silver utensils and old tools.
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Cyprus Museum
This is the island's most interesting museum and houses the best collection of archaeological finds in Cyprus. The original building, erected in 1883, is opposite the lovely municipal gardens. It's a 10-minute walk west of Plateia Eleftherias.
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Ethnographic Museum
The small Ethnographic Museum houses the largest collection of folk art and ethnography in the country. The building dates back to the 15th century, although some later additions have been made. Here you will see fine examples of embroidery, lace, costumes, pottery, metalwork, basketry, folk painting, leatherwork and woodcarving.
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European Art Gallery
Located within the complex of the Makarios Cultural Foundation, this gallery presents 120 oil paintings of various European schools of art from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The themes are mainly religious with works by Van Dyck, Rubens, Tintoretto, Lorraine and Delacroix.
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Greek Independence War Gallery
Located within the complex of the Makarios Cultural Foundation, this gallery contains maps, copper engravings and paintings of people and events from the Greek War of Independence in 1821.
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House of Hatzigeorgakis Kornesios
The well-preserved House of Hatzigeorgakis Kornesios belonged to Kornesios, the Great Dragoman of Cyprus from 1779 to 1809. A dragoman ( tercüman in Turkish) was an interpreter or liaison officer between the Ottoman and Orthodox authorities.
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Ledra Museum-Observatory
Not really a museum, although it likes to call itself one, Ledra Museum-Observatory is an observatory on top of Ermes (formerly Woolworths) department store. Basically a good vantage point over the city, here you can use telescopes to gaze at the whole of Lefkosia and trace the Green Line. It is also a great place to orient yourself. Explanations of various buildings and neighbourhoods are given in English, French and German.
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Lefkosia Municipal Arts Centre & Library
For something a little less cerebral than the museums, duck into the small arcade to the right of the National Struggle Museum and head along Apostolou Varnava for one block to the rather avant-garde Lefkosia Municipal Arts Centre & Library. Its air-conditioned interior contains an occasionally bizarre but mostly interesting collection of art. The permanent collection includes paintings and sculpture, and other works from the Dimitris Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece. Exhibitions vary monthly. The centre also has a coffee shop and art library for visitors.
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Leventis Municipal Museum
The small, two-storey historical Leventis Municipal Museum has exhibits dating from before 2000 BC to the present day. Among items on display are household equipment, traditional dress, books and prints. There is also a gift shop.
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Makarios Cultural Foundation
This complex of the Makarios Cultural Foundation consists of three main exhibition areas. The European Art Gallery presents 120 oil paintings of various European schools of art from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The themes are mainly religious with works by Van Dyck, Rubens, Tintoretto, Lorraine and Delacroix.
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National Struggle Museum
This display is really for die-hard history buffs. The National Struggle Museum exhibits documents, photos and other memorabilia from the often bloody 1955-59 National Liberation Struggle against the British.
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