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The Cyprus Folk Art Museum was founded by members of the
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was actually taken from a room in the building to the place of his execution. On the first floor there is the room which was used by him and is known by his name.
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at which time collections were removed for safe keeping. Subsequently, the roof of the building was in urgent need of repair and work carried out from 1990 after
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who refers to the little owl on the door in his poem "Little things of Cyprus". The poem is dedicated to his friend and first director of the Museum,
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