The Cyprus Museum of Modern Art, the Cyprus Car Museum, the Walled City Museum, the Herbarium and the Natural History Museum and the GÜNSEL Art Museum hosted 2,000 students from around 20 schools providing education there the TRNC in the academic period 2023-2024.
The Cyprus Museum of Modern Art, the Cyprus Car Museum, the Walled City Museum, the Herbarium and Natural History Museum and the GÜNSEL Art Museum continue to feed the aesthetic sensibilities and cultural sensibilities of the visitors. -visit as a source of inspiration with their work spanning a wide range of culture, art, history, science, technology and art.
Growing up with museums contributes to the development of critical thinking skills by fostering creativity in children, especially those of primary and secondary school age. By having the opportunity to learn with concrete examples in the museum environment, students will have the opportunity to connect the theoretical knowledge they have acquired in school with the real world.
The nearby East Formation Museums, visited by 2,000 students from around 20 schools providing education in TRNC in the previous academic year and summer term, will continue to be a frequent destination for students in the new academic period.
The Cyprus Museum of Modern Art has the work of 3 thousand artists from 14 Turkish communities together!
Located on the campus of the Near East University, the Cyprus Museum of Modern Art brings together the works of around 3 thousand artists from 14 different Turkish communities with art lovers. In addition to the rich collections of sculptures and paintings, it offers the opportunity to explore knife and sword collections, ship models, hand-made glass works and many other works from different periods. Located directly across from the Cyprus Museum of Modern Art, the Cyprus Car Museum takes its visitors on a journey through time with over 150 cars. Although the classic and sports cars from the 1900s are among the most fascinating pieces in the museum for adults, the museum also has many interesting works for children, such as toys made from various machine parts, model cars , Batman and Transformers figures.
The Herbarium and Natural History Museum, located on the campus of the University of the Far East, awaits visitors with more than 20 thousand plant and living specimens, as well as geological materials from Cyprus, which ‘ go back 250 million years. In the museum, where 11 thousand different samples of 1500-1600 plant species found in Cyprus are displayed, 140 types of plant species unique to Cyprus are displayed.
Meet culture and art in the center of Nicosia!
Located at the Nicosia Kyrenia Gate, the Walled City Museum welcomes its visitors with its works depicting the cultural identity and history of Cyprus. In the museum, which shows the history and culture of Cyprus from the Ottoman Empire to the present day, under one roof, the manuscripts, certificates and editions belonging to the Administration of Foundations of Cyprus and the Department of National Archives and TRNC Research; The records of a judge from Nicosia and original works from the 17th century are also on display. Paintings depicting Nicosia from the era created by Cypriot painters in the 1960s carry the traces of the recent past into the future.
Musicians, writers, symbols of Turkish Cypriot culture, Turkish Cypriot community leader Dr. Fazıl Küçük and his friends Rauf Raif Denktaş and Osman Örek, Fehmi Ercan, who was killed on the first day of the peace operation on July 20, 1974 and gave his name to the only airport in the TRNC, on August 8, 1964, during the Turkish Air Force campaign to support the Erenköy Struggle in Cyprus. visitors at the Walled City Museum.
The Günsel Art Museum, which was founded in the name of our country’s domestic and national car “GÜNSEL” and shares the same place with the “GÜNSEL Promotion Office” in Dereboyu, attracts attention as one of the museums that bring art to the city center. The Günsel Art Museum contains oil and acrylic paintings, original prints, engravings, linoleum, serigraphy, lithography, woodblock prints, as well as sculpture and ceramics.
