The Archaeological Museum of Chania has been housed since 1962 in the monastery of Saint Francis of the Franciscans. It includes a rich material, which records the historical course of the prefecture from prehistoric ((3rd and 2nd millennium BC) to the Roman period (3rd century AD). Exhibits include Linear A and B tablets, jewelry and Roman mosaics.
The headquarters Venizelos / Therisos Movement Headquarters
So called the headquarters of the Revolutionary Assembly in 1905, in Therisos, which organized the homonymous revolution against the authoritarian rule of the High Commissioner George. Nowadays, the building has been converted into a museum for the exposition of weapons, objects from that period and evidence of the revolutionary action of Eleftherios Venizelos.
