Carob Warehouse and Cyprus House Museum.

What to see at Carob Warehouse and Cyprus House Museum

• The building has two floors, and its main door faces the harbour.
• On the ground floor stand an oil mill, a threshing sledge, a plough, jars and other farm tools.
• Upstairs, cases hold crochet and embroidery from across Cyprus, and rooms are set as a kitchen and a sitting corner.

History of Carob Warehouse and Cyprus House Museum

19th century

The stone building on Girne's harbour front serves as a warehouse for carob, long one of the island's main exports.

1974

It becomes the Cyprus House museum, keeping the tools and handwork of village life.

Visiting Carob Warehouse and Cyprus House Museum

Allow about half an hour. The museum is in Girne's old town, on the old harbour front. A car park is mapped about 100 m away, and the nearest mapped bus stop is about 200 m away.

Monuments near Carob Warehouse and Cyprus House Museum

• Kyrenia Harbourabout 50 m north-eastGirne's old harbour, where carob was once shipped from stone warehouses.
• Archangelos Michael Icon Museumabout 150 m north-westA 19th-century church above Kyrenia harbour, now an icon museum.
• Kyrenia Castleabout 200 m eastA harbour fortress that holds a 2,300-year-old merchant ship.