Museums of  the Heraklion Nomos

Click on the  text adjacent to the picture and find out all sorts of information on that particular museum within the nomos of Heraklion. Thanks to the Greek Ministry of Culture. SJ

   Herakleion Archaeological Museum Don't miss this one! Amongst other Minoan artifacts is the famous 'Phaistos Disk.

Cretan Ethnology Museum  

   Crete Historical Museum

Battle of Crete and National Resistance Municipal Museum  Moving stuff.

Kazantzakis Museum   The famous Cretan author of 'The Last Temptation of Christ and Zorba the Greek as well as the must read "Freedom and Death", Nikos Kazantzakis, merits his own museum here in Heraklion

  Monastery of Agia Aikaterine of Sinai Collection

Theotokos the Vatos, portable icon of the 16th century, painted by Michael Damaskenos.

No Picture  Monastery of Agios Matthaios of Sinai Collection 

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