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The Museum 'LYCHNOSTATIS', located in one of the principal tourist areas in Crete, Chersonisos. The museum is, apart from a valuable tourist asset, an exemplary self - motivated conduct on tradition, culture and envir onment of the island.

It consists of four collections:

1. Cretan Flora Collection

2. Ethnographic Collection

3. Folk Art Collection

4. Pre-industrial technology

 

The museum comprises the following buildings and locations :

  • Traditional Dwellings ( a farmer's house and a middle-class house ),
  • Chapel,
  • Windmill,
  • Olive oil - press,
  • Wine-press,
  • Distillery for 'tsikoudia' ( alcoholic beverage 'raki' ),
  • Threshing-floor,
  • Shepherd's shelter,
  • Ceramic workshop,
  • Weaving and plant-dying workshop,
  • Bee's and wax workshop,
  • Shoe-making workshop,
  • Carpentry,
  • Herbarium,
  • Garden with Cretan fruit - trees,
  • Herb - garden,
  • Flora and cactus-garden,
  • Mineral and stone exhibition,
  • Cretan folk artists' gallery,
  • Auditorium [100 seats] for audio-visual shows , seminars , e.t.c.,
  • Open-air theatre [250 seats] for cultural and artistic events,
  • Temporary exhibitions' hall,
  • Library stocked with books and periodicals on Cretan folk culture,
  • Cafe (where typical beverages and sweets are served),
  • Museum-shop (where home-made products of)