The ‘Kyriazis Medical Museum’ (Iatriko Mouseio Kyriazi) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) set up specifically in order to operate a museum of the medical, healing and health history of Cyprus. Its founding members include medical doctors, pharmacists, historians and members of the public interested in the history of Cyprus. The vision of the organization is to “preserve, for the future generations, the medical and healing inheritance of the Cypriot people”.
The museum is housed in a traditional mansion in the centre of Larnaka (a town with strong medical connections throughout antiquity, middle ages and the Ottoman period). An initial donation of over 50 old books, 60 framed documents, traditional pharmaceutical furniture and over 400 items forms the nucleus of the collection. Additional donations in kind have now been negotiated.
Exhibits include forgotten sayings and poetry with a Byzantine, Frankish, Venetian or Ottoman slant, most of which were influenced by inadequet treatments and lack of medical faricilites at the time. The interesting displays include an X-ray machine, surgical instruments and a pharmacists sisplay unit fulled iwht plenty of interesting things.
Address: 35 Karaoli & Demetriou Street, Larnaka (close to St. Lazarus Church)
Tel: 24652017
Operating Hours: Every Wednesday and Saturday 09:00-12:00
Entrance Fee: Free
Information Source: http://larnakaregion.com
