Greece
The Museum of the Battle of Crete and National Resistance 1941-45 Municipality of Heraklion was founded and operates from May 1994.
Its purpose is to gather, preserve and appropriate report relics of the period 1941-1945 in Crete and the documentation and view the holy race of the Cretan people during the battle but also the German and Italian occupancy.
In parallel with the presentation of various historical Documents the Museum aims to cultivate love and respect for the history of Crete.
The Venetian Walls of Heraklion is the largest you meet strongest fortress building across the Mediterranean, which did not have the luck to be in the Heritage List of UNESCO. To built this massive fort took dozens of years.
The archaeological collections was recently enriched with the generous offer of coins and numerous findings of various periods, that Adonis Kyrou had collected from all around the island, as well as from other places. A significant number of pictures and various ecclesiastical exhibits also comes from collection, and offers.
The Museum of the History of the Greek Costume is a museum with a vestiary content. In its collection one can find 25.000 objects, especially costumes and jewellery of the historic greek area, copies of Minoan, archaic and byzantine costumes, as well as 23 porcelane dolls dressed in traditional outfits.
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