A MESSAGE FROM GEORGE ELIADES Regardless of their value, the exhibits within an Ethnographical Museum should always aim to provide both a general and specific picture, a form of living image, reflecting man’s evolutionary development, from prehistoric times to present. It should be a representation and expression of life through its most essential phases. I [...]

Memories Some of our special memories

George S. Eliades George S. Eliades was the founder and owner of the Ethnographical Museum and honorary Curator of the Paphos Archaeological Museum. Born in Paphos, he married Chryso Antoniadou, they had two children, Nicholas and Fryne, and two grand-children, George and Michalis Harakis. A cosmopolitan who spoke fluently five languages, George S. Eliades studied [...]

Our Exhibits Such is the eclectic and fascinating array of artefacts, books, furniture, china glassware, and jewels on display within the museum it’s an almost impossible task to select and highlight certain items to fully illustrate the sheer treasure house that exists in this old Paphos home. Everything, from beautifully carved wooden dowry chests, the [...]

Educating the Young ‘Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.’ Chinese Proverb Here at the museum we try to capture a child’s imagination and that spirit of excitement and curiosity will hopefully last a lifetime. We welcome school visits or private groups of children and, as the [...]

Our creative role Our Ethnographic museum houses a collection which has become for many a shared journey through which the objects speak to us in many different ways, and students who visit the museum are made aware that objects offer a natural way to cut across language and time barriers to help them understand their [...]

MUSIC TRAVELERS LIVING HERITAGE PART II The European Capital of Culture Pafos2017, Pafos Ethnographical Museum and the Solon Michaelides Cultural Foundation, on the occasion of International Museum Day unite the musical paths of the great Cypriot composer Solon Michaelides, with those of Beethoven, Bartok, Piazzola and Konstantinidis and present an innovative evening of classical music. [...]

Pafos2017 | A Walk in the Museums The European Capital of Culture – Pafos2017 organises a two-day event of tours in archaeology and time, attempting to bring out the long history of culture and tradition through the link between Palaipafos and New Pafos. The two tours attempt to create a network and a route that [...]

A walk in the museums Τhe European Capital of Culture – Pafos2017 organises a two-day event of tours in archaeology and time, attempting to bring out the long history of culture and tradition through the link between Palaipafos and New Pafos. The two day event will end with a music event hosted in the Ethnographical [...]

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