The historical collection includes coins, weapons- guns, Cretan knives, pistols. Also revolutionary flags, maps of Crete, objects from the Ottomans presence on the island, from the era of Autonomy, the Russian presence in Rethymno until the union with the rest of Greece in 1913. It also includes objects from the 1st World War, the Macedonian Strugle and the Battle of Crete and the German occupation.
Arkadi
The words ‘FREEDOM OR DEATH’ became reality with the explosion of the Arkadi Monastery on 8 November 1866.
The self-sacrifice and death of the Cretan men and women, who had willingly withdrawn to the monastery in order to avoid falling into the hands of the Ottoman Turks, shocked the entire world. Many philhellenes wrote about the episode in the foreign press and supported the Cretans by sending supplies and ammunition to the island.
