The Historical Archive of Crete was founded in 1920 and is housed in a neoclassical building on I. Sfakianakis Street in Chania. It includes a significant volume of archives and exhibits, representative of the history of Crete, which rank it first among the regional Archives of the country. A museum history and folklore department also operates on its premises.
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.
