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The Kyrenia Museum of Folk Art
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Kyrenia Museum of Folk Art situated on the Kyrenia
Harbour road and was opened in 1974. It is a fine
example of pre XVII. century buildings which have
traditionally housed Cypriots. These buildings
consisting of a ground floor and a upper floor have
their main entrances opening to the harbour. These
typical Cypriot houses contain many traditional
Cypriot items. On the ground floor, there are items
such as oil-mill, plough, agricultural instruments,
large earthenware fan, and workbench which were used
until recently but are not known by the younger
generation. There is a room for a watchman on the
stairway leading to the upper floor. The first room
of the upper floor there are examples of especially
chosen works and handy works (crochet work,
materials embroidered with colorful, threads or
silver threads, bedspreads, tables covers, head
scarves, pillow cases, woollen socks, bowls etc..)
from various areas of Cyprus, displayed in glass
cabinets. The second room used as a kitchen contain
water jugs, wooden mortars, wine bowls, seramic
bowls. There is a corner in the third and largest
room which was used as a resting place. In the
middle of the room, a wooden bed, a wooden cupboard,
a cabinet containing various women's and men's
clothes, raised wooden shelves with seramic and
metal cups displayed upon them. The third largest
room has been arranged in this way. It is possible
to see, clothes, chests, tables, chair, wall
cupboards, doors and windows, in the all parts of
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