Art festival at Near East Enterprises Museums!
Date Added: 20 April 2023, 08:24


The Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts, the Cyprus Car Museum, the Walled City Museum and the Cyprus Herbarium and Natural History Museum will continue to host their visitors throughout the Ramadan Feast, except for the first day.
You can combine the joy of the holiday with art by visiting the Near East Enterprises Museums during the Ramadan Feast, which is combined with the weekend this year. The Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts, the Cyprus Car Museum, the Walled City Museum and the Cyprus Herbarium and Natural History Museum will continue to host their visitors throughout the feast, except for the first day.

The Turkish World is at the Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts!
At the Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts, which brings together 50 thousand works of approximately 3 thousand artists from 14 different Turkish nations, sculptures and paintings, a knife and sword collection, ship models, a completely handmade glass work collection, clothes from different cultures and periods, jewelry, models and decorations, will be possible to see many more works under the same roof.

The magnificence of cars!
When you complete your tour at the Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts, the Cyprus Car Museum, located right across it, will open the doors of a completely different world to you. Over 150 cars are exhibited at the Cyprus Car Museum, which reveals the development of the modern world and the historical development of automobiles with its rich collection. The oldest vehicle in the museum is the 1901 model Crest Mobile. In addition to this vehicle, which is the only one in the world, cars from every period of 100 years of history from the early 1900s to the 2000s draw visitors into a time tunnel. In addition to its rich automobile collection, the Cyprus Car Museum provides children with fun moments with toys made from various machine parts, model car collection, pedal cars, Batman and transformers figures and many more.

Another museum you can visit on the Near East University campus is the Cyprus Herbarium and Natural History Museum. The museum, which was founded after more than 20 years of scientific research, awaits its visitors with more than 20 thousand plant and living specimens as well as the geological materials of Cyprus, of which history goes back 250 million years. In the museum where 11 thousand different kinds of plant species varying between 1500-1600 found in Cyprus and 140 kinds of plant species unique to Cyprus are exhibited.

The culture and history of Cyprus is at the Walled City Museum!
The Walled City Museum, located across the Kyrenia Gate, reflects the culture and history of Cyprus, while offering art lovers an art feast with its different works. Over 3,000 pieces are exhibited in the Walled City Museum where artifacts from different styles and period are exhibited on each floor. In the museum, which has a wide range of works, toy car collection, examples of swords and knives, hyperrealist silicone sculptures of the symbols of Turkish Cypriot culture are also exhibited. At the same time, over 70 sculptures, paintings, objects related to maritime history and Karagöz replicas are among the remarkable collections. Ottoman period artifacts such as the warrants and edicts, the kadi registers of Nicosia, and the carpet from the 17th century exhibited at the Walled City Museum take visitors on a historical journey.