Paphos Ethnographic Museum, Paphos District, Cyprus

5Malcolm P 5:00 PM Oct 10, 2022

An hour spent totally engrossed in Cypriot history
The Courtyard garden was really beautiful as an introduction to this wonderful collection of ancient Cypriot artefacts. Some of the pieces dated back to 7000BC and were extremely interesting, along with more contemporary items also Included. Fryne Eliades the extremely informative guide and owner of this private collection was there to explain and answer a plethora of questions. Please visit to support her efforts as the Cypriot government doesn’t provide any kind of monetary grant to help her. This is unbelievable because this abundant slice of Cyprus cultural history is protected and maintained by herself alone.

5John I 5:00 PM Feb 24, 2023

A museum poem, inspired by our visit!
Paphos: Ethnographical Museum In Paphos. if you climb Apostle Paul past The Tombs of the Kings, and then the stairs that skirt the clifftop restaurant, you’ll come to the town center. And there’s a museum just by a tavern you might like to see. It’s ethnographical, and houses all the history of Cyprus. So, downstairs you’ll find a catacomb, and implements for plowing and for weaving, plow and loom. There is a bedroom which is Cypriot, complete and antique. There’s an Arabic inscription from the time the Ottomans were here. Upstairs, there is a library, and cases with five thousand years of art come from the ground: a pot shown in the Louvre, some pre-Cycladic statuettes, intact vases, amphorae, made when Pericles ruled Athens and the statues smiled, or when blind Homer had just sung the Odyssey. There’s jewelry and coins – the centuries give way to the millennia in them, from Alexander’s time, or Lusignan’s, or bearing Ottoman or Roman script. This was one man’s collection. It’s as if you see his mind, the digs, the long research. 15.ii.2023