Local Rural Museum of Kato Drys

Housed in a traditional residence in the mountainous village of Kato Drys, the Local Rural Museum, Kato Drys was once the home of Gabriel and Eleni Papachristoforou, and was donated to the Department of Antiquities after their passing with the provision that it would serve as a local museum of olden-day village life.

The house is a typical specimen of local architecture from the 19th century and is constructed from stone. It consists of five ground-floor rooms and an upper-level room; an indoor, enclosed yard with a clay oven, and a roofed passage with an arch that leads to the large gateway opening toward the road. Although simple, it was a luxurious home during its time.

Today, the museum depicts a traditional rural household and is laid out with the furniture and equipment of the times, including tools that were used for occupational purposes and household chores.

The museums is also one of the Larnaka Virtual Museums. Explore it below, or in full screen here.
 

Region: Kato Drys Village , Larnaka (Larnaca)
Address: Kato Drys 7714, Cyprus
Contact No: Tel: +357 24 34 26 48   
Operating Hours: Daily: 09:00-15:00
Closed every second Saturday
Operating Period: Closed on public holidays.
Entrance Fee: €1 / Students, free (Wheelchair accessible)
Website: https://larnakaregion.com/directory/product/local-agricultural-museum-kato-drys
  Opening and closing times as well as entrance fees, are subject to alterations without notice. Visitors are advised to check before visiting.

 

Local Museum of Traditional Embroidery and Silversmith-work – Lefkara

The Local Museum of Traditional Embroidery and Silversmith-work, Lefkara is located in the mountainous village within the ‘House of Patsalos’, which was named after its owner – a member of one of the village’s richest families.

The entire house is constructed out of local white limestone and contains several rooms built during different periods from the 19th to the early 20th century. The ground floor showcases traditional village life within a rural-type dining room and storeroom that display large jars and agricultural implements and tools.

The three rooms of the upper floor contain the typical furnishings of a grand Lefkara house of the 19th and early 20th centuries, along with traditional costumes, jewellery, silverwork, and a large collection of old Lefkara embroidery, for which the village is renowned.

The ‘House of Patsalos’ was acquired by the Department of Antiquities in 1983, thanks to a donation by Mr Stelios Ioannou, and after its restoration was officially opened to the public as a museum in August 1988.

A separate building houses a reconstruction of a blacksmiths ‘smithy’ complete with original tools and authentic sound effects of the blacksmith at work.

As part of the Larnaka Virtual Museums project, you can tour the museum virtually here, with enriched and bonus material from home, or whilst at the museum for a hybrid experience.

 

Region: Lefkara Village , Larnaka (Larnaca)
Address: Pano Lefkara 7700
Contact No: Tel: +357 24 34 23 26
Operating Hours: Daily: 08.30 – 16.00 (Sept 16 – Apr 15) / 09.30 – 17.00 (Apr 16-Sept 15)
Operating Period: Closed on some public holidays.
Entrance Fee: Free
Website: https://larnakaregion.com/directory/product/local-museum-traditional-embroidery-and-silversmith-work-lefkara
  Opening and closing times as well as entrance fees, are subject to alterations without notice. Visitors are advised to check before visiting.

Local Museum of Traditional Embroidery and Silversmith-work – Lefkara

The Local Museum of Traditional Embroidery and Silversmith-work, Lefkara is located in the mountainous village within the ‘House of Patsalos’, which was named after its owner – a member of one of the village’s richest families.

The entire house is constructed out of local white limestone and contains several rooms built during different periods from the 19th to the early 20th century. The ground floor showcases traditional village life within a rural-type dining room and storeroom that display large jars and agricultural implements and tools.

The three rooms of the upper floor contain the typical furnishings of a grand Lefkara house of the 19th and early 20th centuries, along with traditional costumes, jewellery, silverwork, and a large collection of old Lefkara embroidery, for which the village is renowned.

The ‘House of Patsalos’ was acquired by the Department of Antiquities in 1983, thanks to a donation by Mr Stelios Ioannou, and after its restoration was officially opened to the public as a museum in August 1988.

A separate building houses a reconstruction of a blacksmiths ‘smithy’ complete with original tools and authentic sound effects of the blacksmith at work.

As part of the Larnaka Virtual Museums project, you can tour the museum virtually here, with enriched and bonus material from home, or whilst at the museum for a hybrid experience.

 

Region: Lefkara Village , Larnaka (Larnaca)
Address: Pano Lefkara 7700
Contact No: Tel: +357 24 34 23 26
Operating Hours: Daily: 08.30 – 16.00 (Sept 16 – Apr 15) / 09.30 – 17.00 (Apr 16-Sept 15)
Operating Period: Closed on some public holidays.
Entrance Fee: Free
Website: https://larnakaregion.com/directory/product/local-museum-traditional-embroidery-and-silversmith-work-lefkara
  Opening and closing times as well as entrance fees, are subject to alterations without notice. Visitors are advised to check before visiting.

Ecclesiastical Museum of the Saints Constantine and Helen – Tochni

Located in the rural village of Tochni, the ecclesiastical museum is part of the historic Church of The Saints Constantine and Helen.

The museum room – which adjoins the church – features a range of precious religious relics, including Gospels, icons (dating as far back as the 16th century), and silver and bronze sacred vessels. Also featured is a grand cross, which is displayed in the centre of the museum room.

Most importantly, the museum contains a small piece of the Holy Cross, and a small piece of the relic of Saint Helen, which are of insurmountable religious value.

The church itself is uniquely located on a bridge in the village, and a historically significant structure. Both the bridge and the church are said to have been built by Saint Helen.

As part of the Larnaka Virtual Museums project, you can tour the museum virtually here, with enriched and bonus material from home, or whilst at the museum for a hybrid experience. 
 

Region: Tochni Village, Larnaka (Larnaca)
Address: The Church of Saints Constantine and Helen, village centre, Tochni Village
Contact No: Tel: +357 99 54 96 48
Operating Hours: Wednesday and Sundays only: 17:00 – 19:00 by requesting the key from the church
Operating Period: All year round.
Closed on Public Holidays.
Entrance Fee: €2 / €1 (students)
Website: https://larnakaregion.com/directory/product/tochni-ecclesiastical-museum
  Opening and closing times as well as entrance fees, are subject to alterations without notice. Visitors are advised to check before visiting.

 

Bee & Embroidery Museum Kato Drys

Located in the mountainous village of Kato Drys (which means ‘lower oak’ in Greek), this interesting and comprehensive museum is dedicated to olden-day village life and traditional industries and pastimes.

Housed in a four-room complex in a 300-year-old residence, the Bee & Embroidery Museum features over 1000 exhibits that showcase villager’s daily life through the ages – including old farming and household equipment and furniture – alongside information and displays related to bees and local beekeeping practises. In an additional neoclassic house (built in 1937), a rich collection of traditional lace and embroidery (Lefkaritika) dating back to 1880 is exhibited, along with various heritage artefacts. There are even some old souvenirs that the owner’s grandfather brought back from his trips to the UK to sell his lace, including collector’s items from the coronations of King George and Queen Elizabeth.

Visitors can take a guided tour; watch the making and preparation of homemade products (such as bread, dried figs and fig pies), and the production of wine and Zivania; take part in various seasonal activities such as olive, almond and grape picking; enjoy a coffee in the inner courtyard or the orchard, or purchase products made from honey, olives, wine and carobs.

As part of the Larnaka Virtual Museums project, you can tour the museum virtually here, with enriched and bonus material from home, or whilst at the museum for a hybrid experience.
 

Region: Kato Drys Village, Larnaka (Larnaca)
Address: Kato Drys 7714
Contact No: Tel: +357 99 89 26 77
Operating Hours: Summer, Daily: 10:00 – 13:00 / 16:00 – 18:00 (summer) / 10:00 – 16:00 (winter) / closed on Thursdays
Group visits by prior arrangement
Operating Period: All year round.
Closed on Public Holidays.
Entrance Fee: €2 / €1 (students)
Website: https://larnakaregion.com/directory/product/kato-drys-bee-embroidery-museum
  Opening and closing times as well as entrance fees, are subject to alterations without notice. Visitors are advised to check before visiting.

 

Bee & Embroidery Museum Kato Drys

The Local Museum of Traditional Embroidery and Silversmith-work, Lefkara is located in the mountainous village within the ‘House of Patsalos’, which was named after its owner – a member of one of the village’s richest families.

The entire house is constructed out of local white limestone and contains several rooms built during different periods from the 19th to the early 20th century. The ground floor showcases traditional village life within a rural-type dining room and storeroom that display large jars and agricultural implements and tools.

The three rooms of the upper floor contain the typical furnishings of a grand Lefkara house of the 19th and early 20th centuries, along with traditional costumes, jewellery, silverwork, and a large collection of old Lefkara embroidery, for which the village is renowned.

The ‘House of Patsalos’ was acquired by the Department of Antiquities in 1983, thanks to a donation by Mr Stelios Ioannou, and after its restoration was officially opened to the public as a museum in August 1988.

A separate building houses a reconstruction of a blacksmiths ‘smithy’ complete with original tools and authentic sound effects of the blacksmith at work.

As part of the Larnaka Virtual Museums project, you can tour the museum virtually here, with enriched and bonus material from home, or whilst at the museum for a hybrid experience.

 

Region: Lefkara Village , Larnaka (Larnaca)
Address: Pano Lefkara 7700
Contact No: Tel: +357 24 34 23 26
Operating Hours: Daily: 08.30 – 16.00 (Sept 16 – Apr 15) / 09.30 – 17.00 (Apr 16-Sept 15)
Operating Period: Closed on some public holidays.
Entrance Fee: Free
Website: https://larnakaregion.com/directory/product/local-museum-traditional-embroidery-and-silversmith-work-lefkara
  Opening and closing times as well as entrance fees, are subject to alterations without notice. Visitors are advised to check before visiting.

 

Museum of Christian Art – Christoforou Collection

The Museum of Christian Art – Christoforou Collection is housed in a renovated old residence, located opposite the Kostas Kaimakliotis Folklore Museum in Aradippou.

The museum exhibits over 300 pieces depicting the Greek Orthodox and various other faiths from around the world from the private collection of retired Cypriot diplomat Charalambos Christoforou.

The museum is divided into five themed exhibits: Greece-Cyprus; Europe; Russia; South America, and Engravings

Included in the collection are works by Salvador Dali and Raphael, and an original engraving by Rembrandt, as well as a painting by the famous Russian artist Evgeni Klemenov ‘The Songs of Mikis Theodorakis’, which depicts the legendary composer directing his orchestra.

As part of the Larnaka Virtual Museums project, you can tour the museum virtually below or in full screen here, with enriched and bonus material from home, or whilst at the museum for a hybrid experience.

 

Region: Aradippou, Larnaka
Address: 11 Thermopilon Street, Aradippou
Contact No: Tel: +357 24 53 33 02
Operating Hours: Monday – Thursday: 8:00 – 15:00
Fridays: 8:00 – 15:00 / 16:00-18:00
Saturdays: 10:00 – 13:00 / 16:00-18:00
Sundays: 10:00 – 13.30
Operating Period: All year round.
Closed on public holidays
Entrance Fee: FREE
Website: https://larnakaregion.com/directory/product/museum-christian-art-christoforou-collection
  Closed on public holidays. Opening and closing times as well as entrance fees, are subject to alterations without notice. Visitors are advised to check before visiting. 

 

Museum of Christian Art – Christoforou Collection

The Museum of Christian Art – Christoforou Collection is housed in a renovated old residence, located opposite the Kostas Kaimakliotis Folklore Museum in Aradippou.

The museum exhibits over 300 pieces depicting the Greek Orthodox and various other faiths from around the world from the private collection of retired Cypriot diplomat Charalambos Christoforou.

The museum is divided into five themed exhibits: Greece-Cyprus; Europe; Russia; South America, and Engravings

Included in the collection are works by Salvador Dali and Raphael, and an original engraving by Rembrandt, as well as a painting by the famous Russian artist Evgeni Klemenov ‘The Songs of Mikis Theodorakis’, which depicts the legendary composer directing his orchestra.

As part of the Larnaka Virtual Museums project, you can tour the museum virtually below or in full screen here, with enriched and bonus material from home, or whilst at the museum for a hybrid experience.

 

Region: Aradippou, Larnaka
Address: 11 Thermopilon Street, Aradippou
Contact No: Tel: +357 24 53 33 02
Operating Hours: Monday – Thursday: 8:00 – 15:00
Fridays: 8:00 – 15:00 / 16:00-18:00
Saturdays: 10:00 – 13:00 / 16:00-18:00
Sundays: 10:00 – 13.30
Operating Period: All year round.
Closed on public holidays
Entrance Fee: FREE
Website: https://larnakaregion.com/directory/product/museum-christian-art-christoforou-collection
  Closed on public holidays. Opening and closing times as well as entrance fees, are subject to alterations without notice. Visitors are advised to check before visiting. 

 

Craft of Caning Museum Livadia

Livadia village is home to a unique basket weaving folkart using cane and reeds, and the preservation of this significant part of the village’s history has been secured through the Craft of Caning Museum, Livadia, which showcases the art of weaving and was inaugurated in November 2016.

The museum is an initiative by Livadia Municipality to create a space to preserve and share its traditional basketry ‘calamoti’, which is only practiced by a handful of women today, but was once an incredibly important part of the villagers’ everyday life and employment.

In olden days, the women spent whole days of the year paring and splitting reeds in order to make various basketry products, and Livadia is the only place on the island where ‘psatharkes’ (traditionally used for roofing) are still made, with the craft also included on the UNESCO Intangible World Heritage List.

The museum displays this rich history in a modern and attractive way within a structure itself made with cane, and comprises a large array of baskets, musical instruments, tools and other interesting exhibits and information, including a photographic exhibition.

The bench outside the museum preserves reeds in resin to symbolise the enduring nature of the basket-weaving tradition and is lit up at night. It was made by Youth Makerspace Larnaka and sponsored by Larnaka Tourism Board.

As part of the Larnaka Virtual Museums project, you can tour the museum virtually here, with enriched and bonus material from home, or whilst at the museum for a hybrid experience.
 

Virtual video: https://virtuallarnakaregion.com/LivadiaCaningMuseum/

Region: Livadia, Larnaka (Larnaca)
Address: 1 Dikaiosinis, Livadia Village 
Contact No: Tel: +357 24 82 17 40
Operating Hours: Wednesday: 09:00 – 13:00 / 16:00-18:00

Friday & Saturday: 09:00 – 13:00

Operating Period: All year round.
Closed on Public Holidays.
Entrance Fee: €2 (adults) / €1 (under 12s)
Website: https://larnakaregion.com/directory/product/craft-caning-museum-livadia
  Opening and closing times as well as entrance fees, are subject to alterations without notice. Visitors are advised to check before visiting.
 

Experience the immersive 360 Virtual Tour in fullscreen mode – click here!

Craft of Caning Museum Livadia

Livadia village is home to a unique basket weaving folkart using cane and reeds, and the preservation of this significant part of the village’s history has been secured through the Craft of Caning Museum, Livadia, which showcases the art of weaving and was inaugurated in November 2016.

The museum is an initiative by Livadia Municipality to create a space to preserve and share its traditional basketry ‘calamoti’, which is only practiced by a handful of women today, but was once an incredibly important part of the villagers’ everyday life and employment.

In olden days, the women spent whole days of the year paring and splitting reeds in order to make various basketry products, and Livadia is the only place on the island where ‘psatharkes’ (traditionally used for roofing) are still made, with the craft also included on the UNESCO Intangible World Heritage List.

The museum displays this rich history in a modern and attractive way within a structure itself made with cane, and comprises a large array of baskets, musical instruments, tools and other interesting exhibits and information, including a photographic exhibition.

The bench outside the museum preserves reeds in resin to symbolise the enduring nature of the basket-weaving tradition and is lit up at night. It was made by Youth Makerspace Larnaka and sponsored by Larnaka Tourism Board.

As part of the Larnaka Virtual Museums project, you can tour the museum virtually here, with enriched and bonus material from home, or whilst at the museum for a hybrid experience.
 

Virtual video: https://virtuallarnakaregion.com/LivadiaCaningMuseum/

Region: Livadia, Larnaka (Larnaca)
Address: 1 Dikaiosinis, Livadia Village 
Contact No: Tel: +357 24 82 17 40
Operating Hours: Wednesday: 09:00 – 13:00 / 16:00-18:00

Friday & Saturday: 09:00 – 13:00

Operating Period: All year round.
Closed on Public Holidays.
Entrance Fee: €2 (adults) / €1 (under 12s)
Website: https://larnakaregion.com/directory/product/craft-caning-museum-livadia
  Opening and closing times as well as entrance fees, are subject to alterations without notice. Visitors are advised to check before visiting.
 

Experience the immersive 360 Virtual Tour in fullscreen mode – click here!