Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos
The Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos is a museum in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece. The first collection was established in 1969. The present building opened to the public in 2024 after undergoing an extensive renovation.
Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos

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The Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos is a museum in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece. The first collection was established in 1969. The present building opened to the public in 2024 after undergoing an extensive renovation.
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Room 1
Room 1
The largest collection, displaying items excavated at Agia Fotia cemetery near Sitia is housed in the first room. The room also contains many notable vases and several hundred bronze blades of differing shapes and level of sharpness also found in the graves of Agia Fotia. Fish hooks dating back to early Minoan Crete are also exhibited.
Gallery of photos from the years 2005 and 2010
Gallery of photos from the years 2005 and 2010
• Illustration — Building of the Museum • Illustration — Ithyphalic stone, Palekita near Sitia, 3000 BC • Illustration — Cycladic type pottery, Agia Fotia near Sitia, 3000-2500 BC • Illustration — Early Minoan bird-shaped rhyton, Agia Fotia, 3000-2500 BC • Illustration — Goddess of Myrtos, Phournou Koryphi, 2500-2300 BC • Illustration — Vasiliki ware, Phournou Koryphi, 2500-2300 BC • Illustration — Horns of Consecration, Petsofas, 2000-1425 BC • Illustration — Minoan female figurines, Petsophas, 2000-1425 BC • Illustration — Minoan male figurines, Petsophas, 2000-1425 BC • Illustration — Minoan small stone vessel, Palace of Malia, 1800-1700 BC • Illustration — Minoan tripod, Palace of Malia, 1800-1700 BC • Illustration — Ritual tall cup, Makrygialos, 1780-1425 BC • Illustration — Triton-shaped stone rhyton with engraving, Malia, 1550-1500 BC • Illustration — Gold needle, 1600-1425 BC • Illustration — Clay sistrum, Ag. Charalambos cave, 1800-1050 BC • Illustration — Goddess or priestess, Myrsini near Sitia, 1450-1100 BC • Illustration — Clay censer (Thymiaterion), Gralygia near Ierapetra, 1400-1200 BC • Illustration — Pottery for water at the ceremony, 1350-1300 BC • Illustration — Late Minoan Larnax no 262, Sitia, 1440-1050 BC • Illustration — Ancient Greek flask, geometric style, 750-725 BC • Illustration — Small Goddesses, Greek archaic period • Illustration — Head of a larger clay statue, Daedalic style, 700-550 BC • Illustration — Multiple lamp, clay, Olous (Elounda), 700-400 BC • Illustration — Skull of athlete with coin for Charon, Ag. Nikolaos, 1st century AD
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