Historical Museum of Crete - Leof. Sofokli Venizelou 27
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Contact Historical Museum of Crete
| Address : | Leof. Sofokli Venizelou 27, Iraklio 712 02, Greece |
| Phone : | 📞 +889 |
| Postal code : | 712 |
| Website : | http://historical-museum.gr/ |
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| Description : | This neoclassic building features the art & history of Crete, plus a library & cafe with a terrace. |
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James Cheung on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Small but good museum on history of crete.
Wish they had a bit more history on the ancient periods but overall a good experience.
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Antonio Russo on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Definitely a good building and very clean environment but quite poor regarding the collections since we are in such historical place. The island of Crete has a lot more to offer than just a big collection on the second world War and some others about local traditions.
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Bury Zenek on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The 3rd must see in Heraclion because of Theotokopoulos and Cretan school paintings, Venetian artifacts and Kazantzakis collection.
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Olga Genetzaki on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The museum worths the visit! The cafe also! Nice garden, nice coffee and tasty pancakes!
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Brian Butterworth on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ You need to come here to understand the island of Crete... There are some things here that will blow your mind with their historic value.
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MiR Gimenez on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A very well laid museum, with no overwelming size and rooms, educational and well presented. Staff was helpful and communicative. Interesting bookshop with plenty if books in both Eng and Grk .
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Weston Marlow on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Small but informative museum. It was good to see the modern history as well and all of the different cultural impacts. The museum has some interactive bits as well, which was nice.
They have good covid protocols (for those reading this while still in the pandemic).
My biggest complaint is that many items were not listed clearly or only had an audio icon for discovery - fine if you got the audio device, but we did not know they had them when we started in the museum. Some of the English translations are hard to read due to dark text on dark background.
Restrooms on site, very low entrance fee (€5 per adult at the time of writing), Cafe and food on site as well. Beautiful views of the ocean to boot.
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Re Bit on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Beautifully curated exhibition with varied historical content. Some examples from the Ethnographic displays fascinating with clothing, embroidery, weaving all providing insights to the the folk country self sufficient lives before. A World War II exhibit with audio pieces by Soldiers and Fighters . Also a fascinating Nikos Kazantzakis Collection, including his library, desk furniture from his Antibes Study. He wrote, “…I will willingly give the Museum… anything valuable I have connected to my long, laborious, intellectual life. Thus preserving the cell where a Heraklion labourer of the intellect has worked for so many years …” (Letter from N. Kazantzakis to SCHS, 9th January 1957).
With the above words, he notified the Society of Cretan Historical Studies of his intention to donate personal possessions and archive material to the Historical Museum of Crete, a few months prior to death. Stunning. On the facilities there is a small glass elevator, ground floor toilets - clean and tidy. The cafe team lovely, with an indoor eating area, or to the front (pic) a terrace and at the south side a delightful tree shaded courtyard with cute fountain. We spent about 3 hours there and left feeling elated rather than the usual state of exhausted overwhelm ? !! Bravo
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