TUE-SUN: 08:30-15:00*
(During summer the Museums is open till 19:30)

General admission: 2,00 €
Senior citizens: 1,00 €
E.C. Students & children FREE

The museum is accommodated in the catholic of the Venetian abbey of Saint Francis. During the period of Ottoman occupation there use to exist a Muslim mosque of Yousuf Pasha. In the modern season had become cinema and a storehouse for military purposes. Since 1963 it has been functioning as Archaeological Museum.

Apart from the permanent exhibition, the museum houses temporary exhibitions in the frame of certain local events (such as the exhibition of musical instruments or on the birth of writing), as well as music concerts.

In the collections there are included: Minoan discoveries from various regions of the prefecture, prehistoric finds from caves, from graves  of   Geometric  period,  the  historical times from various cities of the prefecture. Coins, jewels (prehistoric and historical times), sculptures, inscriptions, stele, mosaics.  

The most important exhibits of museum are: Clay sealing from Kasteli, Clay tablet inscribed with signs of the Linear A script, Small clay tablets with texts in Linear B script, Clay bathtub used as funerary sarcophagus, Clay pyxis with a representation of a kithara player, Cold disks from a female pithos burial, Head of a clay figurine from a female burial in a family rock-cut tomb, Clay figurine of a mourner from a subterranean rock-cut tomb, Mosaic floor decorated with a representation of Dionysos and Ariadne and Bust of the Roman emperor Hadrian.