#museums

The European investment bank (EIB) has signed a new financing agreement with Cyprus, providing €72 million for the construction of the country’s new archaeological museum in Nicosia, it was reported ...

Entry to the island’s museums and archaeological sites will be free of charge to all visitors on Thursday to commemorate International Day of Monuments and Sites, which is marked ...

The deliberate destruction of cultural heritage is a means of eradicating the identity of a people, Deputy Minister of Culture Vasiliki Kassianidou has said. Speaking at an event where the ...

The government will soon announce a plan to attract more people to museums in the Akamas villages, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday. Speaking at the inauguration of three different ...

The Council of Ministers on Thursday has green lighted a proposal presented by the deputy ministry of culture, in collaboration with the education ministry, for the implementation of a policy ...

Over 43,000 people visited museums and other archaeological sites in the Larnaca district this year, data from the department of antiquities showed on Friday. Among the most popular sites were the ...

A wind of change is blowing through the museums of Europe Just as the English think of Shakespeare as their very own, despite his universal appeal, the Greeks think the ...

Civil wedding ceremonies hosted at archaeological sites in Cyprus were the focus of discussions by lawmakers during the House transport committee meeting on Thursday. Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos posed the ...

Provisions are to be added to current regulations to allow the carrying out of civil weddings at specified ancient monuments and museums at a specific fee and with a set ...

The Antiquities Department has started digitisation of ancient movable antiquities stored in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia and on display in other state museums, it said on Tuesday. The project, ...