Museum of the Chrysopigi Monastery

From November 1st to March 31: Daily: 08:30 - 15:00, Monday: closed.

Museum of the Gonia Monastery

Info Telefon: +30-28210 - 228 484

From November 1st to March 31: Daily: 08:30 - 15:00, Monday: closed
From July 1st to October 31: Daily: 08.30 - 15.00, Monday: closed

Archeological Museums of Chania

Fax.: +30 28210-94487

Info Telefon: +30 28210-90334

Special ticketing package for the Archaeological and the Byzantine Museum of Chania.

The museum is housed in the katholikon of the Venetian monastery of St. Francis. During the period of the Turkish occupation it was the Muslim mosque of Yussuf Pasha, while in modern times it was used as a cinema or a storehouse for military equipment. Since 1963 it has been functioning as the Archaeological Museum of the city. Apart from the permanent exhibition, the museum houses temporary exhibitions in the frame of certain local events (such as the exhibition of musical instruments or on the birth of writing), as well as music concerts.

The collections include:
Prehistoric finds from Crete caves
Minoan finds from the city of Chania
Minoan items from various sites in the prefecture
Finds from graves of the Geometric period
Finds from the city of Chania, dated to historic times
Finds from other towns of the Chania prefecture
Coins Jewellery (prehistoric and historic times)
Sculpture, inscriptions, stelae, Mosaics.

 

Maritime Museum of Crete

Fax.: +30 28210-74484

Info Telefon: +30 28210-91875
Besucher-Email: info@mar-museum-crete.cha.forthnet.gr

The Museum was inaugurated on the 27th May 1973, date of the 32nd anniversaryof the Battle of Crete.

It includes models of ships, various nautical instruments and objects such as range finders, barometers, wind-gauges, course and speed abaci, torpedo firing computer, magnetic boat compasses, meteorogical instruments, sextants, a planisphere, torpedo-boat steering gear, etc. There are also paintings, portaits, authentic historic photographs, such as the raising of the flag of the Union of Crete with Greece in the Firka fortress at Chania, on the 1st December 1913, etc. Also exhibited are relics such as uniforms and other memorabilia which belonged to the heroic dead of the Greek Navy, guns which had been used in the war of 1912-13, etc.

All the exhibits from the naval tradition of Greece are classified according to their historical periods, that is:Bronze age-Classical and Hellenistic (2800 BC-6th century AD). Venetian period (1200 AD to the 17th century), Byzantine and post-Byzantine period (650 AD to the 18th century), the period of the Ottoman rule-the struggles for Independence (1650-1909), the Balkan Wars (1912-1913), World War II (1940-1944), the post-War period (after 1944).
 

Collection of Spelia

From November 1st to March 31: Daily: 8:30 - 15:00, Monday: closed.

Archeological Museum of Rethymnon

Info Telefon: +30 28310-54668

Since 1991, the Archaeological Museum of Rethymnon has been housed in the pentagonal building opposite the main gate of the Fortetsa. The building was constructed by the Turks in an effort to strengthen the city's defence. Due to the different functions that it served over the centuries - until the 1960's it housed the civic prison - its original form has been significantly altered.

The museum contains the following collections:
Late Neolithic (3500-2900 B.C.) and Early Minoan (2800-2100 B.C.) finds from the caves Gerani, Melidoni, Margeles and Helenes
finds from the buildings at Apodoulou, Monastiraki and the peak sanctuary at Vrysinas, dated to the Middle Minoan period (2100-1600 B.C.)
Late Minoan finds (1600-1100 B.C.) from the cemeteries, the most representative being that of Armenoi
finds of the Geometric (1000-700 B.C.) and Archaic (700-500 B.C.) periods from Eleutherna and Axos
finds from Stavromenos and Argyroupolis (ancient Lappa) dated to the Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods.
 

Historical and Folk Art Museum of Rethymnon

Fax.: +30-28310-23.667

Info Telefon: +30-28310-23.398

Daily 10.00-14.00, Sunday: closed
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Museum of the Monastery of Arkadi

From 1 of November until 31 March:
Daily 8:30-15:00 h
Monday Closed
Holidays 8:30-15:00 hBestandteilDBVCMSMuc2006

Museum of the Preveli Monastery

From November 1st to March 31:
Daily: 8:30 - 15:00,
Monday: closed