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)