Cyprus historic and classic motor museum part 3

morris minor 1000 police panda car 1956

1952 Daimler ferret

1966 VESPA vbb 150CC

Austin A40 fauna countryman 1959

Citroen 2CV 1948

Citroen traction avant 1934

Mobile phone evolution

Rolls royce silver shadow 1965

 

Limassol museum

Capital in marble Cypro-archaic period 600-475bc

Tools of Neolithic and Chalcolithic period 5800-2500 BC

Terracotta figurine of Eros-Hellenistic period 2nd-1st cent BC

Cast of a car Burial. Late Cypro-PPNB Neolithic (7500-7000). Parekklisslisia-Sillourokampos. The site of P-S has provided significant information about the early history of cat domestication. Cat bones dated to 10300 BP (before present) testified that small felids were introduced to Cyprus by boat. This indicates that they were already human companions in the Levant about 5000 years before the beginning of cat domestication in Egypt. A complete cat skeleton was also found, dated to 9500-9000 BC, accompanying a human burial. This provides evidence that the cat had an important role in the imagination, as well as in the everyday life of early Neolithic people, as early as the dawn of agriculture. 

Terracotta figurine of a figure reclining on a cart. Cypro-Archaic period (8th-5th c. BC)-Amathus tomb 199/66

 

Necklace with gold beads, pearls and semi-precious stones. Roman period (50BC-395 AD) Amathus Tomb 629/1

 

Theater museum Limassol

The birds-Aristophanes 2006

Dangerous liaisons 

Foinissai (phoenician women) by Euripides

Costume designer: stephanos Athenitis

In the jungle with the beasts

Animal masks from Polina Thrasyvoulou's play. Staged by ETHAL in 203. The playwright herself was the stage director and Valentinos Iosif was the set and costume designer. 

16-7-2021 theater museum-Roberto zucco-1

The game of Love and chance by Pierre de Maruvaux

Costume designer: Stavros Antonopoulos

Stage director: Evis Gabrielides

Theater company: Theatro ena 1998

Bith Orgon'scoat and costume and Madame de Rosemonde's dress from the Game of Love and Chance and Dangerous Laisons respectively, belong to Stavros ANtonopoulos a regular collaborator of Theatro Ena for many years . Both plays refer to 18-th century France

Th Murdered if Laius and the Ravens by Marios Pintikas

Parts: Woman crow, Man

Costume designer: Melita Couta

Stage director: Lea Maleni

Theater company: THOC 2006

Set miniature

 In 1987, Nikos S. Nikolaides, an optician by profession and an amateur actor, donated his rare theatre archive to the Municipality of Lemesos.

By doing so he laid the foundation stone for the establishment of the Cyprus Theatre Museum.

From a very young age and until his death, Nikos S. Nikolaides (1909-1989) systematically collected material relating to theatre and its activities in Cyprus. His decision to bequeath this important collection to the Municipality of Lemesos was the beginning of joint efforts carried out by the Municipality of Lemesos and the Cyprus Theatre Organisation for the establishment of a Theatre Museum, which would preserve the history of theatre in Cyprus.

In 1989, two years after Nicolaides’ donation, the process of finding a suitable site which would house the Cyprus Theatre Museum began.
After Panos Solomonides’ generous donation to the Municipality of Lemesos, the Kouvas printing factory was purchased, which was gradually transformed into the the Panos Solomonides Cultural Centre that opened its doors in 2010. Today, this venue houses the Cyprus Theatre Museum, which, apart from the collection of Nikos S. Nikolaides, also includes Giorgos Filis’ archive with material of the Organisation for the Development of Theatre (OTHAK), Giorgos Vatyliotis’ photographic archive, material belonging to the Cyprus Theatre Organisation, as well as exhibits from many theatre professionals and companies that donated or lent various objects from their unique collections.

Printed material, costumes, scale models, props, set and costume designs, as well as photographs and posters constitute the exhibits of the permanent collection of the Cyprus Theatre Museum, giving visitors the opportunity to take a virtual tour in the island’s history of theatre.

Address

8, Panos Solomonides Street (former Androutsou str)

3032 Lemesos

Opening Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00-13:00 Tuesday and Friday 9:00-13:00 and 16:00-19:00

Sunday 10:00-14:00 For pre-booked visits only

Water museum Limassol A

 The first in its kind in Cyprus!

The building of the Museum consists of the old Lemesos Water Pumping Station (the so called “Water Machine”), next to the Water Board of Lemesos Offices, at 66, Franklin Roosevelt Avenue (opposite the LOEL winery).  The old building of the Water Pumping Station was rehabilitated and a new modern construction adjacent to the old one was built to form the first in its kind "Water Museum and Centre of Water Awareness Development".

water wheel scale model

Laboratory bottles

check valve

water meter

Thalassa museum in ayia napa

 for information about the museum visit here

https://thalassamuseum.org.cy/

Pygmy hippo teeth

the reconstruction of the Kerybia

pygmy elephants

coral fossil

shell fossils

ichthyosaurus fossil

coral