‘It’s a brain exercise’: Inside a small Larnaca museum

“This is not a museum. It’s a brain exercise,” says Dr Marios Kyriazis, Physician, Gerontologist and owner of the Kyriazis Medical Museum. From the moment visitors step inside the small museum in Larnaca, it becomes clear that the experience goes far beyond cabinets of old instruments. It is a place where medicine, memory, art and philosophy collide to provoke thought opposed to passive observation.

The origins of the museum are traced back to Kyriazis’ family. Kyriazis inherited medical instruments...