MUSEUM OF WORLD NATURAL HISTORY

Vision and Purpose of Establishment

The Museum of World Natural History will be charitable foundation dedicated to the study, conservation enhancement and protection of natural environment. Its foundation is based on a new approach of man with nature. Goal is the education, a new value for reintegration of human functions and economy of Nature.

The Museum will work for the promotion and preservation of our natural environment in the following ways.

• Educating hundreds of daily visitors, especially schoolchildren.
• Spreading knowledge in society through conferences, publications and exhibitions.
• Developing high-tech workshops that focus on research of natural resources that sustain life: soil, water and atmosphere in relation to nutrition and health.
• It collaborates with other scientific centres and institutions in Europe and the U.S. in the fields of biotechnology, soil ecology and analytical chemistry. 

With dedication to education

The Museum's educational activities will contribute to valid knowledge and in shaping environmental consciousness. They are intended for pupils, students, educators and the general public.

Apart from presentations of the site which is addressed to organized groups of visitors, the Education Department will be open for collaboration with teachers, students, volunteers, museum educators and facilitators to implement programs, children's activities and workshops related to the subject of the Museum and have the purpose of: 

• familiarity with the natural environment,
• understanding the relationships of interdependence developed in this
• raise awareness of the risks to the natural environment today and
• enable a safeguarding direction

The vision of Angelos Tsirides

Angelos Tsirides for the past few decades, he is touring the planet, and out of love and passion, buys whatever rare can find in his search. From an early age he was magnetized by the mystery of evolution of life on Earth, so in parallel with his business activity, he manage to organize slowly, but firmly a rare collection.

Angelos and Emily Tsirides

He wishes that these findings could be housed in a building that could easily be named as the Cyprus Museum of World Natural History. After all, his collection consists of Cyprus artefacts as well as hundreds of others, of global origin.

Creating a Cyprus Museum of World Natural History, will make Cyprus a pioneer in this genre.

It will benefit all students in Cyprus, scientists and the public in general, which will be proud to have a rare science, exhibition, research, and entertainment centre.

Also, it will attract tourists from every corner of ​​our planet.

The findings held by the Tsirides Foundation are about 1,000. Half of which are fossils and the other half are minerals.

• The fossils are vertebrates, invertebrates and plants. There are unicellular and multicellular organisms that cover all Eras, from Precambrian to Holocene.
• Some of the fossils belong to the class of vertebrates. These are fish of various ages and sizes, skeletons, eggs, dinosaur teeth, reptiles, mammoth tusk and jaw, birds and many other animals.
• In the category of invertebrates there are excellent samples of trilobites, insects, ammonites, molluscs, gastropods and many more.
• In the category of plants there are tree trunks, one of which is 5m long, fossil leaves including a palm leaf size 2m height and 1,5 m wide, fossil ferns and more.
• The collection covers a wide range of minerals of exceptional museum-quality and come from all over the world. The collection also includes several meteorites, the largest of which weighs 26kg.