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In parallel with the presentation of various historical Documents the Museum aims to cultivate love and respect for the history of Crete.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 National Gallery has in its collections more than 17.000 works of painting, sculpture, engravings and other forms of art, and is the treasury of the recent Greek artistic creativity, covering a timespan from the metabyzantine days up to our days.
The National Museum of Modern Art began operating in 2000. This was a step to fill a big gap that existed for many years on international modern art for Athens.
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.
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