Agios Nikolaos Archaeological Museum
Since the Irakleio Archaeological Museum is closed, the Agios Nikolaos Museum is very important. Here are some of my favorite objects. (Sorry for the extreme compression, I'm having trouble loading photos onto the site lately.)
Phoenician glassware.
Phoenician glassware, again.
The goddess with upraised hands.
A plate of anklebones.
Isis, in bronze.
Terracotta sistra.
The most important piece in the Museum: the Myrtos Goddess.
Phoenician glassware.
Phoenician glassware, again.
The goddess with upraised hands.
A plate of anklebones.
Isis, in bronze.
Terracotta sistra.
The most important piece in the Museum: the Myrtos Goddess.
posted by Heidi at 2:31 μ.μ.
5 Comments:
Hi Xaroula,
Do you know how long the Irakleio Archaeological Museum will be closed for? Will it be open this summer? I might visit Crete this summer and it would most certainly be on my list of things to visit.
Looks like you enjoyed your trip to Crete. Hope the weather cooperated.
Paul
Hi Paul,
There is no way the Irakleio Archaeological Museum will be open next summer. It will be closed at the VERY least 2 years, probably more like 5 years, and it only closed a few weeks ago.
It's a good thing because when it opens up again it will be amazing and will have been worth the wait, but of course kind of sucks for you :-( The Chania Archaeological Museum is very good... and soon I'll get more photos up from the Siteia and Archanes Archaeological Museums. That makes 4 good Archaeological Museums in Crete -- still by NO means a replacement for Irakleio... but it helps.
The weather was incredible! Not a cloud in the sky the whole week I was there :-)
x.
oh and also the Rethymno Arch. Museum is good too, I don't have any photos from there though. And Ierapetra has a small collection.
Xaroula,
Oodles of thanks for this great blog of yours and for your prompt responses.
I visit Greece every summer to visit my family near Kalamata, but I usually take off for several days to an island too. Next year I was seriously thinking of visiting Crete. Your pics have put a fire in my belly!
Here's another museum question, this time about the National Archeological Museum in Athens.
As you know, they re-opened the first floor in 2004 after a massive restoration and renovation (the washrooms are to die for! lol). Do you know if/when they will re-open or restore the 2nd floor?
While we're on the topic of museums, one of my personal favourites is the small but good archeological museum in Chora. :-)
Be well, stay warm, and keep on blogging!
Paul
Hi Paul,
Good news! The National Museum has been FULLY restored and open since the spring of 2005 (I believe). I visited it in December 2005, and there was no problem visiting the top floor.
It is phenomenal (of course!) with an enormous Ceramics exhibit that wraps all the way around the museum, and a small but VERY well-done exhibit on Thera (the frescoes but also pots and a lot of videos and things about the excavations themselves, which is the only part of the National Arch Museum that has any "educational/interaction" component. (Something I like in *small* doses, and I think they did it perfectly.)
I never finished loading my Peloponnese pictures... I still have tons from Mani and Mystra and all that... when I do that I'll try to upload a few from the Chora Museum as well! I did go there, but there are just so many places it's hard to get a good representative sample.
By the way, I've taken over 10,000 photos in Greece in 4 months! So it's going to be a while before I get them all sorted out :-)
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