The Museum of ancient Eleutherna
The Museum of Ancient Eleutherna, or Μουσείο Αρχαίας Ελεύθερνας, opened as an on-site museum within the archaeological park in Eleutherna and anchors what you can see in the nearby ruins. It was inaugurated on 19 June 2016, and it is the fourth museum in Greece devoted exclusively to a single archaeological site—after Olympia, Delphi, and Vergina. Eleutherna itself flourished in Crete as a city-state from the Greek Dark Ages through Byzantine times, and the museum’s displays cover a long arc of three and a half millennia, spanning roughly 3000 BC to 1300 AD. The artifacts come from the archaeological site of Eleutherna and the necropolis of Orthi Petra, linking daily life to burial practice. Inside, Room B traces religious and worship life from the early Iron Age into the Byzantine era, and it includes the archaic sculpture of the Lady of Eleutherna—a figure connected, through iconography, to the Lady of Auxerre at the Louvre. …
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