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Museum openings, new displays, loans and acquisitions.
Museums·Brief
MPs heard the building had been expected by 3 February 2027; the chair of the House education committee said the public may not get in until 2030.
Source: gov.cy photo gallery: Transport Minister, Deputy Minister of Culture, Cyprus Archaeological Museum
Museums·Brief
The Oxford exhibition runs from 8 October 2026 to 11 April 2027 and follows the goddess through more than 150 objects, from Cyprus to contemporary art and fashion.
Source: Ashmolean Museum: Aphrodite: The Making of a Goddess
Museums·Roundup
Nicosia's Leventis Museum opens an exhibition of 136 coins, CAARI calls for papers for the Swedish Cyprus Expedition centenary, and Malcolm Wiener dies at 91.
Source: Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia: Messages on Metal
Museums·Roundup
Asinou icons stolen after the 1974 invasion return to Cyprus, the Ashmolean opens its Aphrodite show, and Nicosia museums put coins and Armenian church treasures on view.
Source: Cyprus Mail: Two 14th-century icons stolen after Turkish invasion return to Cyprus
Museums·Roundup
The Presidential Palace in Nicosia opens its art and antiquities to guided visits, and new Central Prisons at Agios Sozomenos are to be built away from the Bronze Age sites.
Source: Ministry of Justice and Public Order: Ανάδειξη του Αγίου Σωζομένου και αξιοποίηση του πρώην Αστυνομικού Σταθμού Πύλης Πάφου
Museums·Roundup
The Cyprus Museum objects behind familiar logos and souvenirs, a pottery symposium at the Vounous cemetery, and an opera that closed Paphos Castle for five days.
Source: Department of Antiquities: Pafos Medieval Castle closed to the public from 2 until 6 September 2026
Museums·Roundup
The Department of Antiquities seeks eight archaeologists to digitise Cyprus Museum finds and rules out a contemporary art museum in its building; a Cornell student digs at Maroni.
Source: Deputy Ministry of Culture: Digitisation of the Cyprus Museum, recruitment of fixed-term employees
Museums·Roundup
The Kourion museum at Episkopi will close from 1 August for upgrade works, and the Department of Antiquities mourns its former chief foreman, the stonemason Andreas Kallis.
Source: Deputy Ministry of Culture: Temporary closure of the Local Archaeological Museum of Kourion (Episkopi) for upgrade works
Museums·Roundup
Greece hands back 48 Cypriot antiquities from a late ambassador's collection, and Cypriot pots meet Picasso's ceramics in a Barcelona exhibition.
Source: Deputy Ministry of Culture: Repatriation of 48 Cypriot antiquities from the Hellenic Republic
Museums·Roundup
The Idol of Pomos, the Chalcolithic picrolite figure on Cyprus's 1- and 2-euro coins, wears a small copy of itself at its neck. It is on show in the Cyprus Museum.
Source: Live Science: Idol of Pomos, a 5,000-year-old fertility figurine from Cyprus that wears a miniature version of herself on a necklace
Museums·Roundup
A Cypro-Archaic jug withdrawn from a US online auction comes home, and the Department of Antiquities answers for the new museum's delay and sets out its display plan.
Source: Department of Antiquities: Repatriation of a Cypriot antiquity from the United States of America
Museums·Roundup
Kourion, the sanctuary of Apollo Hylates, Kolossi Castle and the Kourion museum shut for five days after drones targeted Akrotiri; Jenny Webb's Lapithos lecture went online.
Source: Deputy Ministry of Culture: Archaeological sites of Kourion and Apollo Hylates, Kolossi Castle and Local Archaeological Kourion Museum reopen as of tomorrow
Museums·Roundup
Sixteen antiquities lent by Cyprus join the Louvre's Cypriot rooms, and the National Library of France opens an exhibition on Cyprus with icons from Nicosia.
Source: Presidency of the Republic of Cyprus: The archaeological exhibition Cyprus at the Louvre was inaugurated in Paris
