Museum of Archaeology (Heraklion, Crete)

Description: Address: 2 Xanthoudidou St / Heraklion / Crete / Greece / Features exhibits of the Minoan Civilisation.

Newest Review: ... Cretan antiquity are admittedly, on display here - the famous Snake Goddess figure; the wonderful Bull's Head from Knossos - both available in all sorts of reproduction copies from souviner shops all over the island - the indecipherable (some would say, dogily so) Phaistos Disk, an artefact in suspisciously good nick which was unexpectedly discovered in one of the southern Minoan palace sites ... more

... a around the turn of the last century, that is made from a type of clay not found in Crete, and has heiroglyphics written on it in no known language.... The problem with the Museum in its current state is the venue. The temporary exhibition is curren...more

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Museum of Archaeology (Heraklion, Crete): Great exhibits, shame about the venue - current review ratin ... (710 words)
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The Museum of Archaeology in Heraklion, Crete is purportedly the second most important in Greece, matched for its collection of antiquities only by the recently updated National Museum of Greece in Athens. This one, let us be clear from the outset, is still a work in progress. The renovations / move into a new building were scheduled to take place in 2009, but when I was there last month (in June) the - admittedly in parts very impressive collection - was still housed in temporary accommodation. What you see is effectively the 'edited hightlights' of the full, Irkalion Museum collection. The 'big numbers' - the glories of Minoan art that ... Read the complete review