Photograph·pht_00926·c.1930

The First Cyprus Museum

Arched stone doorway marked MUSEO, with a column on the right and a cobbled street in front
Photograph: c.1930. pht_00926. "The First Cyprus Museum". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized.

Description

The stone doorway sits in a masonry wall with a rounded arch framed by a moulded surround, and the word MUSEO is lettered across the arch above the dark door. To the right, a slender column rises from a carved base, while at the far left a person in dark clothing is partly out of frame. The cobbled ground in the foreground fills the lower part of the image, and the wall stones show weathering.

English

The doorway of the first Cyprus Museum in Nicosia, with the word MUSEO lettered over the arched entrance. A column on a carved base stands to the right, and a person is partly visible at the left edge above cobbled paving.