My husband took our 6 year old son, when he came back to our hotel he said that he wants to go back and its his new second favourite museum after the science museum in London. He also said that it was way better than...More

I found this museum to be distinctly average, the one hi lite is the earthquake simulation classroom, but I didn't think that this on its own justified the admission price.

This place has 5 floors and it is well organized very fun to stay with lots of activities this is a must do.

We chose this museum to visit with our 16 and 13yr olds as the reviews made it seem less stuffy than the other museums in Heraklion. We had an afternoon to while away before our flight home and we didn't want to walk around in...More

I stayed about 2 hours in this museum and I loved it. I learned a lot mostly about earthquakes (i loved the simulator) and about the local fauna. I highly recommend a visit.

The exhibition is very nice organized, it has 5 floors (from -2 to 2). It's divided in 3 or 4 main activities. At the -2 level you can find an interactive exhibitions about earthquake, volcanos, tsunami, etc. Here they have a verry interesting eartquake simulator,...More

One of the ideas that I've appreciated is the earthquake simulator - the aim of this project is to make people aware of how this phenomenon feels like and it's impact on buildings and us. Also, there is a tsunami simulator (where you can produce...More

I love history and this was a very informative museum. We learned the history of Crete and it was kept our interest. They do have a headset option but we did not use them. It took us just about three hours. They had a very...More

Plenty of things to do on a Sunday afternoon. The kids, aged 8, had a really good time. Staff is really friendly and helpful.

Staff over policed myself and 2 young kids on first two floors. Literally had a staff member follow us, which didn't allow us to relax. Very interesting, but probably not for kids