The Canbulat Tomb and Museum

Closed at weekends
May to September:
9.OO am- 1.3O pm and 4.OO pm- 6.3O pm
October to April:
8.OO am- 1.OO pm and 2~30 pm- 5.OO pm

Canbulat, the Bey (a provincial governor in the Ottoman empire) of Kilis, was included in the Ottoman forces that were going to conquer Cyprus. As he was extremely successful during the capture of Nicosia, he was appointed to the Ottoman army laying siege to Famagusta along with Iskender Pasha and Deniz Pasha. As he is believed to have been killed in the vicinity of the Arsenal Bastion his tomb is under this bastion. The building was restored in 1968 and the front section was turned into an etnographic and archaelogical museum.
 

The Folk Arts Museum

May to September:
9.OO am- 1.3O pm and 4.OO pm- 6.3O pm
October to April:
8.OO am- 1.OO pm and 2~30 pm- 5.OO pm

An 18th century house on the Kyrenia harbour is now used as a museum. On the ground floor there are olive presses, a primitive plow, a loom, jugs, and a flail. On the upper floor there are samples of traditional handicraft: crochet, bed covers and table cloths, woolen socks, chests with carving, wedding-dresses and wardrobes are some of the things exhibited.
 

The Lapidary Museum

May to September:
9.OO am- 1.3O pm and 4.OO pm- 6.3O pm
October to April:
8.OO am- 1.OO pm and 2~30 pm- 5.OO pm
Closed at weekends.

The Lapidary Museum to the east of the Selimiye Mosque is a Venetian style building constructed in the 15th century. It houses many works of stone (insignias, works of marble, tombs and columns) from the Medieval Age to the present day. The splendid window with tracery opposite the entrance has been transported from the Lusignan Palace at Sarayonu Square which was demolished in the British period.

This is a museum of ancient stone fragments taken from the demolition of ancient buildings. It is situated a few hundred yards from the Selimiye mosque (St. Sophia) and the building is believed to be a Venetian house or could be a renovated mediaeval building. He re one can see pieces of stone work taken from ancient palaces and Gothic churches
During the English colonization period various stone works from the Middle Age were collected from various places are stored in this building. The Court Buildings now standing once sited the Palace of the Lusignan Kingdom.
After making certain additions and alterations this building was used by the Venetians as the Governor's Office. After the demolition of this building its flamboyant style window was removed and placed in the Lapidary Museum.

 

The Mevlevi Tekke Museum (Museum of Whirling Dervishes)

May to September:
9.OO am- 1.3O pm and 4.OO pm- 6.3O pm
October to April:
8.OO am- 1.OO pm and 2~30 pm- 5.OO pm

The small museum is within the walls of the city and close to the Kyrenia gate. It is on the main street leading to Ataturk square and can be distinguished by six domes surmounting a rectangular building.
The building to the South of the Kyrenia Gate was constructed towards the end of the 16th century by Arap Ahmet Pasha after the conquest of the island by the Ottomans. The commander of the conquering army, Lala Mustafa Pasha, Arap Ahmet Pasha, and the first kadi and mufti of the island were members of the Mevlevi order (order of dervishes founded by Mevlana Jalaladdin Rumi, called also the "whirling dervishes"). Inside the building, there are tombs and a semahane (dervish meeting-house for religious music and whirling). Until Ataturk banned the lodges in 1920, it served as a Mevlevi Lodge; its last sheikh – or head of the order – died in 1954. At the entrance to the lodge there is a headdress, a panel and a fountain. Sixteen Mevlevi sheiks are buried in the six tombs in the building. The building which constitutes a different aesthetic sight in the city centre is now used as a museum of ethnography.
 

The Museum of Public Arts

May to September:
9.OO am- 1.3O pm and 4.OO pm- 6.3O pm
October to April:
8.OO am- 1.OO pm and 2~30 pm- 5.OO pm

The Decorative Arts Museum is a 1930s red-tiled villa which houses to a collection of watercolours and paintings, as well as colonial and oriental bric-a-brac which has a rather neglected charm.