Despite being a party town, Ayia Napa does have one the best museums in Cyprus.
The Thalassa Museum opened in 2005 and claims to be the only major attraction in the Mediterranean devoted to the sea.
Given the catalogue of seafaring civilisations that settled in Cyprus, this is the ideal place for such an attraction.
The museum covers 7,000 years of human maritime history, with exhibits starting in the Neolithic age and moving through the Bronze age to the Classical period.
