Nicosia Attractions
Weaving loom © RuTemple
Ethnographic Museum (former Folk Art Museum)
The colourful collections in this museum represent Cypriot folk
art of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and include wood
carvings, jewellery, woven goods, tapestries, embroidery, pottery
and national costumes. The museum is housed in the Old Bishopric in
a 15th-century Gothic building that used to serve as a Benedictine
Monastery and then became the palace of the Archbishop.
Address: Plateia Archiepiskopou Kyprianou, Archbishopric;
Telephone: 22 432 578;
Opening time: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm; Saturday 10am to 1pm;
Admission: £1
