Paphos Museums

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Pafos District Archeological Museum
Address: Griva Digeni 43
Tel.: 00357-26240215
Opening hours: Monday-Saturday 9-17; Sunday 10-13
Attractive collection of Cypriot antiquities from Pafos area, dating from Neolithic Age to 1700 AD.

Byzantine Museum
Address: A. Ioannou 3 next to Bishopric
Tel.: 00357-26231393
Opening hours:
Monday-Friday 9-17 (June-Sept. 9-19); Saturday 9-14
An attractive collection of objects from Byzantine period, including Byzantine icons from 7 th to 18 th centuries and the oldest icon found yet in Cyprus of 7 th or 8 th century.

Ethnographical Museum
Address: Exo Vrysis 1
Opening hours:
Monday-Saturday 9-13; Monday-Friday 14-17 (May-Sept. 15-19); Sunday 10-13
Interesting private collection of objects from Neolithic Age to the present day.

Geroskipou Folk Art Museum
Address: Geroskipou village, 3 km east of Pafos
Tel.: 00357-26240216
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 9-14:30
Name of the village comes from Greek phrase "Ieros Kipos", sacred garden of Aphrodite. A fascinating collection of folk arts and crafts is exhibited in the beautiful Chatzismith house.

Sanctuary of Aphrodite-Palaipafos Museum
Opening hours:
Summer: Daily 9-19:30
Winter: Daily 9-17

Museum of the Mycenaean Colonisation of Cyprus
Address: Maa-Palaiokastro Bay Area
Opening hours: Monday-Saturday 10-16

Basket- Weaving Museum -Ineia
Opening hours: Daily 11-18:30

The white flag was chosen for the young Cyprus as a sign of peace among the two communities living there (Greeks and Turks). The map of the island is golden/yellow , for the sake of easier reproduction of what was originally intended to be a color of copper (symbol Cu ), a metal that got its name from the island name. Most probably, since there is no brownish-reddish-copper color in heraldry, the map was changed to golden. Green olive tree branches stand for peace, again.