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It is a special honour for me to be here with you today, to celebrate International Museum Day by inaugurating the Outdoor Digital Interactive Museum, which is the result of the work of the students and teachers of "STEAME - Hellenic Language and Culture" of the Full Day Programme of the Pancyprian High School.
This extremely interesting augmented reality museum includes AR (augmented reality) applications and there could not be a more appropriate time to open it to the public than on this year's International Museum Day: "Museums for Education and Research."
Museums, as dynamic cultural and educational institutions, have the potential to nurture and develop curiosity, creativity and critical thinking, providing the public with an integrated experience of knowledge and entertainment. As spaces open to all citizens, they promote research and the dissemination of new innovative ideas, since they have the potential to contribute significantly to our understanding of the world.
By choosing this theme for 2024, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) wishes to highlight museums as vital spaces for the convergence of education and research, covering a wide range of fields, from art and history to science and technology, where innovation meets tradition. Today's exhibition is a shining example of how this convergence can best be realised when students and their teachers work together to create a new museum that is attractive and interesting for all. It is worth noting that 11 selected objects from the Cyprus Folk Art Museum are accompanied by videos with descriptions of the objects prepared by the Museum and presented by the students through an equal number of videos prepared by STEAME. The fact that visitors will be able to admire the exhibits in 3D digital format through the "AR codes", 24 hours a day, 24 hours a day, makes the site visitable at any time here in this gallery between the Agonos Museum and the Folk Art Museum a site of special significance and history.
This year's celebration of International Museum Day also coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion.
This year's celebration of International Museum Day also coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion. The anniversary exhibition prepared by the Cyprus Museum of Folk Art and the Society for Cypriot Studies will be inaugurated in parallel at the site of the cells and the Library of the Old Archbishopric. It is a modular exhibition, which presents in the first section life before 1974, and in the other sections the invasion, the refugee period and the life of the interned. On display are relics from the residents of the displaced municipalities of Kythrea, Karavas, Lefkonoikou and Akanthoe, from the community of Agios Ambrosios Kyrenia, from the Free Kythrea Association, and from private individuals, such as the household effects of the interned Konstantinis and Pezounas Kassianis from Turkish-occupied Eptakomi, which were transferred to the free areas in 1976, when they were displaced.
In addition, the exhibition includes works of contemporary Cypriot art from the Byzantine Museum and the Gallery of the Archbishop Makarios III Foundation and works of children's art from the Archive of Children's Art for Primary Education of the Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth.
The role of museums is to preserve and keep alive in our memory our places, our monuments, our customs and traditions, in other words our culture. And this exhibition makes a great contribution to not forgetting our occupied homelands and the events that marked our land.
One of our primary objectives as the Deputy Ministry of Culture is the promotion and protection of our monuments, archaeological sites and museums. For this reason, the Deputy Ministry focuses, among other things, on the gradual upgrading of museums, as well as the archaeological sites and monuments that can be visited. It is our primary concern to make them attractive destinations, accessible to citizens of all ages and foreign visitors. Our goal is to improve the visitor experience through the modernization of museum exhibitions and the integration of digital technologies in the museum space.
In addition, through our sponsorship programs we support museums of other cultural institutions and institutions. Therefore, as the Government and the Deputy Ministry, we welcome the cooperation of the Pancyprian Gymnasium with the Society of Cypriot Studies and the Cyprus Folk Art Museum and we applaud this commendable project that we are inaugurating today.
In conclusion, I would like to congratulate all those who contributed to the organization of today's event and especially to the creation of the Museum and the Exhibition and to emphasize that the Deputy Ministry will always stand by all actions that contribute to the development of cultural culture and intellectual culture and the strengthening of the cultural development, growth and creativity of our society and especially of our young people.
Thank you.
(EC/NZ/EP)
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