https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/topic/museums Museum openings, new displays, loans and acquisitions. en Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:32:00 GMT https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/new-cyprus-museum-delayed-to-2028 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/new-cyprus-museum-delayed-to-2028 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:32:00 GMT 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. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Concrete and glass shell of a large building under construction, with an open lower level, scaffolding and trees beyond https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/ashmolean-aphrodite-making-of-a-goddess-exhibition https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/ashmolean-aphrodite-making-of-a-goddess-exhibition Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:30:00 GMT 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. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Terracotta figurine of a woman giving birth, held from behind by one helper while a second kneels in front of her https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w42 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w42 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:29:00 GMT 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. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 12–18 October 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w41 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w41 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT 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. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 5–11 October 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w39 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w39 Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT 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. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 21–27 September 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w35 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w35 Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT 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. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 24–30 August 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w29 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w29 Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT 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. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 13–19 July 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w28 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w28 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT 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. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading Week 28, 2026 and This Week in Cypriot Archaeology in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w23 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w23 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMT Greece hands back 48 Cypriot antiquities from a late ambassador's collection, and Cypriot pots meet Picasso's ceramics in a Barcelona exhibition. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 1–7 June 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w16 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w16 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:00:00 GMT 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. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading Week 16, 2026 and This Week in Cypriot Archaeology in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w14 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w14 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:00:00 GMT 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. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, week 14 of 2026, 30 March to 5 April, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w10 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w10 Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:00:00 GMT 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. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 2–8 March 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w07 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w07 Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:00:00 GMT 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. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 9–15 February 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner