Historical Museum of Crete
Artifacts from Crete’s long and colorful past fill the rooms of this neoclassical mansion near the harbor. The Baptism of Christ and View of Mount Sinai and the Monastery of St. Catherine, by Crete-born artist Domenikos Theotocopoulos (also known as El Greco), the only works by the artist in Crete, take their place among ceramics, sculpture, icons, and artifacts from the island’s Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and Venetian past. Several rooms document the bloody revolutions against Turkish rule in the 18th and 19th centuries and the very brief period when Crete was an independent state in the early 20th century. Especially evocative are the re-creations of the study and library of novelist Nikos Kazantzakis and a simple farmhouse interior still typical of the island today.
Artifacts from Crete’s long and colorful past fill the rooms of this neoclassical mansion near the harbor. The Baptism of Christ and View of Mount Sinai and the Monastery of St. Catherine, by Crete-born artist Domenikos Theotocopoulos (also known as El Greco), the only works by the artist in Crete, take their place among ceramics, sculpture, icons, and artifacts from the island’s Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and Venetian past. Several rooms document the bloody revolutions against Turkish rule in the 18th and 19th centuries and the very brief period when Crete was an independent state in the early 20th century. Especially evocative are the re-creations of the study and library of novelist Nikos Kazantzakis and a simple farmhouse interior still typical of the island today.
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