Volume L, No 3, July-September 2012 - Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Mr Kyriakos Yiannopoulos Secretary of the Cyprus Medical
Museum
Dr Christodoulos Messis the museum’s Vice President, shows
Stavros Malas the exhibits
Database, Touch Screens and Website
A wealth of information is available on the museum’s
website, www.cyprus-medical-musem.
org, including photographs from medical meetings
from all over Cyprus going back 60 years and videos
from congresses and other events going back
40 years. Photos of our donors with their exhibits
and photos from a number of functions held prior
to the completion of the museum are also available
on our website.
Library
Our collection of books and other writings on Cypriot
medicine are meticulously preserved in the
museum’s small library, although protocols and
other historic documents are on exhibit at the entrance
to the museum.
Botanical Garden with Medicinal Plants
A small botanical garden in the museum yard is
home to medicinal plants used in Cyprus for therapeutic
purposes. The garden was created with love
by Dr John Ioannides.
Antiquities
Unfortunately, our initial desire to include ancient
medical equipment found at various excavations in
Cyprus, or identical copies, has gone unfulfilled, as
our request was denied by the Department of Antiquities.
We hope this decision will change in the
near future, so our visitors will have the opportunity
to compare 19 th and 20 th century medicine to
that practiced millennia ago.
Cost and Further Needs
Thanks to volunteer work undertaken by members
of the Cypriot medical community, we were able to
establish the museum for approximately €100.000.
We received generous contributions from physicians,
pharmaceutical companies and other
sources. We are expecting financial support from
the state and elsewhere, so that we can expand and
enrich our educational programs.
Visitors
We are welcoming professionals and students
from the medical and paramedical sector, as
well as primary and secondary school students.
We also hope to welcome people from all over
Cyprus to visit a unique museum where they
can learn about the history of Cypriot medicine
and the progress of medical technology, where
they can compare the practice of medicine in
the 19 th and 20 th centuries to the medicine of
the 21 st .
Dr Marios Philippou MD
(President of the Museum Committee)
and Dr Chris Messis MD
(Vice President and Curator of the Museum)
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