Historical Museum of Crete

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  • Historic Museum Exhibits
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Open to the public: 09- 17:00 Daily, except Sundays and Holidays
Entrance fee: Adults 5 €, senior citizens 3 €.
Toilet Facilities: Available
Café: Available
Wi-Fi: Available
Parking space: Available for all types of vehicles.
Facilities for people with disabilities: Available
Supervised by: Society of Cretan Historical Studies
Access & walking difficulty: Difficulty rating 1

The Historical Museum of Crete was founded in 1953, and is housed in a neoclassical building of exceptional architectural merit. It tells the story of seventeen centuries of local history and culture, from the early Christian centuries up to modern times. Byzantine art and culture, the periods of Venetian and Ottoman rule, the age of revolutions on the course to union with Greece, World War II, the Battle of Crete and the Resistance, as well as Cretan rural folk culture are all highlighted via selected exhibits combined with a wealth of visual material and multimedia.

The finest exhibits are two El Greco paintings, The Baptism of Christ (1567) and View of Mt. Sinai and the Monastery of St. Catherine (1570), the only works by the artist now on Crete.

The Nikos Kazantzakis is in a special collection including personal effects and manuscripts by the Cretan writer. Visits begin at a separate section featuring a large mock-up of mid-17th century Chandax (Heraklion).

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