Museums of Nicosia

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Folk Art Museum. The Nicosia Folk Art Museum is housed in the old Archbishopric and belongs to the Society of Cypriot Studies which was founded in 1937. Its rich exhibits bear witness to the internal world, the intellectual life, the aesthetic criteria and the inventiveness of the Cypriot artisan. The variety of the exhibits, the shapes, colours, harmony and adornment express the struggle and the faith of the Cypriot people with respect to life itself. Here one sees aspects of bygone eras in the shape of pottery, weaving, basket-making, silver and goldsmithery, sculpture, etc. The wealth of the Folk Art

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The Archbishopric palace The Pancyprian Gymnasium. Just opposite the Archbishopric and the cathedral church of Agios Ioannis (St. John) stands the Pancyprian Gymnasium, the oldest and most historic secondary school of Cyprus, still in use. It was originally founded as a Hellenic Secondary School by archbishop Kyprianos in 1812 but developed into a six-grade secondary school, recognized as equivalent to the secondary schools of Greece in 1896, when it was named Pancyprian Gymnasium, a name retained since then. What Country Is Nicosia Cyprus The reception room (oda) of the House of Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios (Photo, courtesy of the Dept. of Antiquities)

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Museums of Nicosia

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