Tradition

The Folklore Museum of Agios Nikolaos was founded in 1978 and is housed in the Old Port Service by Lake Voulismeni. Most of the exhibited objects were donated by the Touring Club of Agios Nikolaos.

The Menelaos Parlamas Museum of Rural Life & Theano Metaxa-Kanakaki Weaving Collection, housed in a 19th century stone-built olive mill and house, was founded by the Society of Cretan Historical Studies in 1988.

The Museum of Cretan Ethnology at Vori consists of an exhibition complex and a Research and Conference Center. The exhibition is housed in a two storey building and consists of 3000 exhibits.

The folklore exhibition "Vrahassi House" is located at the historic village of Vrahassi by Neapolis. It is housed in a house built in 1880 with the typical traditional architecture of Crete.

Vatolakkos hosts a folklore collection with dozens of items. The Museum of Olive Oil “Fabrica of Dermitzakis" is housed in a 18th century olive mill,

The museum was founded in 2006 by the Prefecture of Chania and is housed in the old Primary School of Nerokourou village, 4 km south of the city of Chania.

The Cretan Folklore Museum, The Neoclassical Museum, the Ecclesiastical museum and the Museum of Eleftherios Venizelos compose a unique cultural complex, where the present is confused with the past.

The Folklore Museum is located in the village Asteri, 13km west of the city of Rethymno. It started its operation in 2009 and is housed in a traditional Cretan house, transformed in a cozy private museum, with passion and love of George Polioudakis.