Museum of Barbarism.

What to see at Museum of Barbarism

• The museum is the house in Lefkoşa's Kumsal quarter where the wife and three children of Major Dr Nihat İlhan were killed on the night of 24 December 1963.
• Its displays combine traditional and modern museum methods.

History of Museum of Barbarism

1966

The house opens as the Museum of Barbarism on 1 January.

2000

After repairs to the building and displays, it reopens in an official ceremony on 14 February.

2022

Renewed with the help of TİKA, the Turkish cooperation agency, it reopens on 17 August.

Visiting Museum of Barbarism

Allow about half an hour. The museum is in the Kumsal quarter of Lefkoşa, outside the walls. A car park and the nearest mapped bus stop are each about 50 m away. Some displays contain graphic images.

Monuments near Museum of Barbarism

• Kyrenia Gate and the Nicosia wallsabout 1.5 km south-eastThe best-preserved gate of Lefkoşa's Venetian walls, built in 1567.
• Mevlevi Tekkeabout 1.5 km south-eastThe lodge of the whirling dervishes of Cyprus, built about 1593–1607.
• National Struggle Museumabout 1.5 km south-eastThe museum of the Turkish Cypriot national struggle, on the Barbaro bastion.