DESCRIPTION
THE MONUMENT
INFORMATION
PHOTOGALLERY
 
 
 
  Administrative Information
 
 

Herakleion (Prefecture of Iraklio)

Telephone: 2810243559 (μνημείο), 2810288484(ΕΦΑ Ηρακλείου)
Fax: 2810288484
Email: efahra@culture.gr

 
 
Tickets
Full: €4, Reduced: €2
Ticket: 4 euros Reduced ticket 2 euro from 1/11 to 31/3 reduced ticket for all visitors Free entrance on the 21st of September, October, November, & December 2021.
Free admission days
6 March (in memory of Melina Mercouri)
18 April (International Monuments Day)
18 May (International Museums Day)
The last weekend of September annually (European Heritage Days)
28 October
Reduced admission for:
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  Open

Winter:
1/11-16/4: 08.30-15.30
Closed on Tuesdays. Last admission: 20 minutes prior to closing time

Summer:
1/4-31/8: Wednesday-Monday 8.00-20.00
1/9-15/9: Wednesday-Monday 8.00-19.30
16/9-30/9: Wednesday-Monday 8.00-19.00
1/10-15/10: Wednesday-Monday 8.00-18.30
16/10-31/10: Wednesday-Monday 8.00-18.00
Closed on Tuesdays.
Last admission: 20 minutes prior to closing time

Great Friday 12.00-17.00 Holy Saturday: 08.30-15.30

Holidays
1 January: closed
25 March: closed
1 May
Easter Sunday
25 December: closed
26 December: closed
 
  Amenities for the physically challenged
Acesses to the ground floor. - WC available.
 
  Access
By plane from various cities or by boat from Athens to Heraklion.
By car or bus to the old harbour and a short distance walk (acessible to all).
Disabilities: Priority, book in advance. Access by a ramp to castle. To visit the upper store a wheel chair is required to use the lift (not provided at the castle).
 
  Suggestive Bibliography
Σπανάκης Στ., Η Κρήτη (τ. Α΄), Ηράκλειο 1964, 226-227
Τζομπανάκη Χρ., Χάνδακας, Η πόλη και τα τείχη, Ηράκλειο 1996, 282-288, 463-471
 
  Services
 
 
See also
Other museums in the same prefecture
Collection of Agios Matthaios of Sinai
Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Historical Museum of Crete
Lychnostatis Open-air Museum
Municipal Museum of the Battle of Crete and the National Resistance
Museum of Agia Aikaterini of Sinai
Museum of Cretan Ethnology
Nikos Kazantzakis Museum