Folk art museum of Kato Drys

The village of Kato Drys [Kato Dhrys] is home to the Folk Art Museum which is housed in a traditional stone-made house from the 19^th century that originally belonged to couple Gabriel and Eleni Papachristoforou.

Some years after their passing their heirs donated the house to the Cyprus Department of Antiquities who restored the structure and converted it into a local museum decorated in a way to replicate a traditional rural household.

The house consists of a "dichoro" (meaning "two areas" or a large room divided in two by an arch) which once functioned as a living room, dining room, reception hall and working area, and is very frugally furnished.  There is an upper level room too that contains the couple's iron bed, a woodcut closet, a sewing machine, and decorated plates sitting on a plaster-made cornice.

The "sospito" ("inner house") or "tzellari" (cellar) was once used as a storage area for foods and tools and also functioned as a small barn.  Passing by the storeroom, you will find yourself in the "maeirkon" (kitchen) with a "tsiminia" (the fireplace in which food was cooked) and all the utensils necessary for the preparation of meals and bread.