The Cyprus Museum of Natural History was established in 1996, , in a specially designed building located within the beautiful gardens of the Carlsberg Brewery, on the outskirts of Nicosia.

The Museum was inaugurated by the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr. Glafkos Clerides, on the 29th May 1996.

The Cyprus Museum of Natural History has been classified by specialists, as well as by its innumerous visitors, both local and foreign, as a superb museum of its kind in every way and a project of great significance for the cultural life of Cyprus. The founders ambition for this museum is to render itself one day, the most important museum of Natural history in the eastern Mediterranean. It has already been decided that the Museum will be expanded shortly into the adjacent spacious buildings, after they become available, soon as the new extensions of the Brewery, for renovation and increase of its production capacity, are compleded.