Archaeological Museum of Chania

The exact date that the building of the original museum was constructed is unknown although it was mentioned in writing as standing during the great earthquake of 1595 and being the largest in the city. It served as a Venetian church inhabited by Franciscan friars, and became an important monument of the city. In 2020, the Museum closed and reopened in 2022 at a new location on Skra Street in Halepa. File:AMC - Flavische Büste.jpg|Portrait bust of a Roman man File:AMC - Kaiser Hadrian.jpg|Roman emperor Hadrian File:AMC - Mosaik 2.jpg|Roman floor mosaic depicting Dionysos and Ariadne File:AMC - Sarkophag Armeni 3.jpg|Late Minoan sarcophagus, 1400-1200 BC. ==Interior==

The museum contains a substantial collection of Minoan and Roman artifacts excavated from around the city of Chania and the surrounding regional unit, including pieces from the ancient cities of Kydonia, Idramia, Aptera, Polyrinia, Kissamos, Elyros, Irtakina, Syia and Lissos, and also from Axos and Lappa in Rethymno regional unit. The museum contains a wide range of coins, jewellery, vases, sculpture, clay tablets with inscriptions, stelae and mosaics. The museum has a Roman floor mosaic, depicting Dionysos and Ariadne. The Archaeological Museum of Chania also has an ancient Cycladic style vessel from Episkopi, Kissamos and a number of busts including one of Roman emperor Hadrian, found at the Dictynaion sanctuary in 1913 and a late Minoan sarcophagus from the necropolis of Armeni, dated to 1400–1200 BC. There is also a spherical flask, noted for its unusual ceramic type, dated to the Late Minoan III period. Early Cycladic tall cup, marble, 3200-2500 BC, AM Chania, 076148.jpg|Cycladic type tall cup, marble, 3200-2500 B.C. Cycladic figurine, female, marble, Crete, 2800-2200 BC, AM Chania, 076188.jpg|Cycladic type figurine, Koumasa variety, 2800-2200 B.C. File:AMC - Vogelgefäß.jpg|Early Minoan bird-shaped vessel. Koumasa ware, 3000 - 2300 B.C. File:AMC - Minoisches Schiff.jpg|Model of an early Minoan ship. Odegetria Monastery area in Asteroussia, 1900 - 1700 B.C. Imprint of Minoan seal, Kastelli, 1450-1400 BC, AM Chania KH 1563, 076138.jpg|Imprint of Minoan seal, Kastelli, 1450-1400 B.C. Minoan pottery, Neopalatial, Mameloukou Trypa cave, AM Chania,076133.jpg|Neopalatial Minoan pottery Clay pyxis, Minoan funeral ceremony, Aptera, 1300-1250 BC, AM Chania, 076150.jpg|Clay pyxis, Minoan funeral ceremony, 1300-1250 B.C. Clay oxen wheel, a toy, Crete, 800-700 BC, AM Chania, 076156.jpg|Clay oxen wheel, a toy, 800-700 B.C. File:AMC - Vogelköpfige Frauen.jpg|Clay figurines of bird-faced women. Boeotioan workshop, 600 - 575 B.C. File:AMC - Goldenes Diadem.jpg|Ancient Greek golden diadem Glass vessels fromworkshop at Tarra, Chania, 5th c BC - 3rd c AD, AM Chania, 076167.jpg|Hellenistic glassware Statue of Artemis, Crete, Roman age, AM Chania, L 79, 076161.jpg|Statue of Artemis, Roman age AMC Roman emperor Hadrianus.jpg|Bust of Roman emperor Hadrianus Glass vessels fromworkshop at Tarra, Chania, 5th c BC - 3rd c AD, AM Chania, 076166.jpg|Ancient Roman glassware AMC - Mosaik 1.jpg|Roman Age mosaic, Dionysos and satyr ==References==