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Chania Archaeological Museum
Chania Archaeological Museum is located on Halidon Street in the centre of the old town,and houses the Archaeological Collection of Chania.It has been housed in various public buildings (the Residency, the Boys’ High School, the Hassan Mosque). Since 1963 it has been housed in the Venetian church of St Francis,an important monument of the city
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Cretan Ethnology Museum
The Museum of Cretan Ethnology consists of an exhibition complex and one Research and Congress Centre in a separate building, where all the remaining activities of the Museum take place: Research, Education, Congresses, Library, Designing Room, Sound Laboratories, Photography Laboratories, Conservation Laboratories, Scientific Laboratories, Archives and Storerooms.
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Historical Museum
The Historical Museum of Crete is located at Sofokli Venizelou 27 & Lisimachou Kalokairinou 7. It 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.
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Maritime Museum of Crete
The Museum was inaugurated on the 27th May 1973, date of the 32nd anniversary of the Battle of Crete. It includes models of ships, various maritime instruments and navigational accessories, such as range-finders, barometers, wind-gauges, course and speed abaci, torpedo firing computer, magnetic boat compasses, meteorological devices, sextants, planispheres, torpedo-boat steering gear etc.
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Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum of Crete has been functioning and operates under the framework of the University of Crete since 1980.Eastern Mediterranean is unique at a global level due to the great ecological and cultural complexity.