Archaeological Museum of Chania
The Archaeological Museum of Chania is located in the historic district of Halepa in the city of Chania, in the former Hatzidakis camp.
Chania Museums and Venues
With its long history and rich cultural tradition, Chania is home to an important selection of museums, collections and exhibition venues.
Among the most notable are the Archaeological Museum of Chania in Halepa, the Maritime Museum of Crete at Firkas Fortress, the Museum of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Icons and the Folklore Museum of Chania “Cretan House”. Important collections and temporary exhibitions are also presented at the Municipal Art Gallery, the Grand Arsenal, the Museum of Typography and other cultural venues across the city.
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Maritime museum of Crete
At the entrance of the port of Chania is situated the Venetian Fortress Firkas, where on December 1st 1913, the Greek flag has been hoisted, sealing the union of Crete with the motherland Greece.
Greek National Football Museum
The Greek National Football Museum is located in the Old Town of Chania and is the only museum in Greece devoted exclusively to the history of the Greek national team. Its collection contains thousands of authentic football exhibits, with a replica of the UEFA Euro 2004 trophy occupying a place of honour.
Folklore Museum of Chania - Cretan House
In the old city center there is the private Folk Museum "Cretan House" which was founded by the passion of two women, Aspasia Bikaki and Irini Koumandraki.
Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Collection of Chania (San Salvatore)
The museum has been housed since 1997 in the church of the monastery of San Salvatore, dating probably from the 15th century, next to the bastions on the west side of the Venetian fortifications of Chania.
Eleftherios Venizelos House at Halepa
Eleftherios Venizelos lived in his paternal house, in Chalepa (Chania), for more than thirty years, from 1880 to 1910, and occasionally, from 1927 to 1935. He was particularly attached to this house. It is the house where he spent his youth, he got married and had his two children, and where his wife died.
Municipal Art Gallery of Chania
The Municipal Art Gallery of Chania is housed in a typical commercial industrial building of neoclassical Greek architecture in the late 19th and early 20th century in Halidon street, on the way to the Venetian harbor of Chania and near the Archaeological Museum.
Historical Archive of Crete
The Historical Archive of Crete was established in 1920 in Chania and operated informally until 1928, when it was recognized as a public entity. Since 1943, it is a Public Service and operates as an annex to the General State Archives.
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