Museum of Natural History (Heraklion, Crete)

Description: Address: 157 Knossou Ave / Heraklion / Crete / Greece

Newest Review: ... plants, and quite well-presented, taxidermically-preserved animals, illustrating the wildlife associated with a variety of typical European habitats - mountains, riverine, broad-leaf forest, coastal, etc. There is almost nothing in these dioramas that is specific to the habitats or wildlife found in Crete, however, which I thought was a mistake. On the other side of the entrance floor there ... more

... is a museum shop (overpriced) and a couple of computer screens showing interactive pictures and puzzles in several languages of Cretan wildlife. These worked well and were quite good. Downstairs, opposite the dusty dioramas, is a small collection of ...more

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Museum of Natural History (Heraklion, Crete): Come see the tourist attraction that's not open on Saturdays ... (895 words)
by - written on 09/07/09 (Very useful, 10 readings)
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To qualify the above, the Natural History Museum's only open till lunchtime on Saturdays, so we were surprised to find on our first attempt to visit that it's closed on Saturday afternoons. Having a great interest in the wildlife of the Mediterreanean, and in that of Crete in particular, we made a second trip to the Museum the next day. The Muesum is located about a 10-15 minute walk from Heraklion's town cente. It's in an attractive location on the sea-front, in a pleasantly modern building made on the outside of smoked glass and green-painted tubular steel. Inside, it currently has two to three floors of exhibits; the open-plan internal layout of ... Read the complete review