Archaeological Museum of Rethymnon

The Archaeological Museum of Rethymnon is temporarily housed in the basilica of Agios Fragiskos St Francis within the old town of Rethymnon. From 1991 to 2015 it turned into housed within the pentagonal fort-building, opposite the main gate of the citadel Fortezza built via the Ottomans to guard the doorway to the fortress and later used as prisons. It hosts famous from diverse excavations around the prefecture of Rethymnon which constitute all periods from the Neolithic Age to the Roman duration.

Among the most crucial famous of the museum is a urn depicting a looking scene, a figurine of a Minoan goddess, a marble statue of Venus, the violin-fashioned marble idol discovered within the cave if Gerani, a semi-enclosed clay vase with stem and a cap, a head of a terracotta female figurine and other giant findings. The museum carries the following collections. Late Neolithic 3500-2900 B.C. and Early Minoan 2800-2100 B.C. reveals from the caves Gerani, Melidoni, Margeles and Helenes.

Finds from the buildings at Apodoulou, Monastiraki and the height sanctuary at Vrysinas, dated to the Middle Minoan duration 2100-1600 B.C. Late Minoan finds 1600-1100 B.C. from the cemeteries, the maximum consultant being that of Armenoi. Finds of the Geometric one thousand-seven-hundred B.C. and Archaic 700-500 B.C. durations from Eleutherna and Axos. Unearths from Stavromenos and Argyroupolis historical Lappa dated to the Classical, Hellenistic and Roman durations.