Archaeological Museum, Archaeological museum in Agios Nikolaos, Greece.
Description
The museum in Agios Nikolaos displays finds from ancient settlements across eastern Crete, collected over decades by archaeologists studying the people who lived on this island. The collection covers different time periods and shows how people here lived, traded, and passed down their skills.
History
The institution was founded to protect objects that excavators brought up from prehistoric sites across the region. This brought together important traces of settlement spanning from the earliest human presence through the Roman period in one place.
Culture
The name comes from the city's patron saint, and the display rooms show pottery and figurines that were made by people living here over thousands of years. The objects give a sense of how different cultures and techniques coexisted and influenced each other in this region.
Practical
You will find the museum on a main street in town, and the display rooms are laid out clearly to organize the collections by time period. If you need time to look carefully at the objects, plan to visit in the morning or early afternoon.
Did you know?
A particularly large collection of bronze objects and early tools comes from a single buried cemetery that lay near the coast south of here. This group of finds shows how people treated their dead and what tools and ornaments mattered to them.
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