KRITIS 2, NICOSIA
NICOSIA
Cyprus
- Heritage
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
- Research
- Youth and education
The Foundation’s mission is to promote its collection through public exhibitions; to create Libraries and Search Centers, and to serve on an international level as a cultural vehicle for the dissemination of study research. Specifically, the collection of rare books and manuscripts contains 600.000 titles; the periodic press numbers 120.000 titles in popular literature, children’s books and comics; and its collection of toys and games is estimated by Vectis and Christies, auction houses, as first in value throughout the world.
The Foundation is now organizing the creation of a Cypriot Cultural Museum and Library where material regarding the culture of Cyprus (school books, natural history items, agricultural tools posters, stamps and coins) will be kept , while the researchers from all over the world will have the possibility to deep further into Cypriot history and tradition. Also, the Foundation is planning to re-open the first printing house that was created in Cyprus as a Press Museum-Research Center that will show the history of Press Development in Cyprus. Since the foundation is the holder of one of the biggest collections of toys, we are planning to open a Research Center where all the toys are going to be exposed to the public as well as to researchers and children so to meet with the history and growth of toys.