the Society of Cypriot Studies Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/the-society-of-cypriot-studies Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:08:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Museums of Nicosia http://travelsfinders.com/museums-of-nicosia.html http://travelsfinders.com/museums-of-nicosia.html#respond Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:00:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=260784 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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