My husband and I are big-time museum goers and consider this one of the best we've been to. It's well-organized and takes you through some of the island's greatest treasures in a way that shows you how the societies that created them developed over time. The exhibits were interesting and the displays were beautiful. I never appreciated before how exciting it is to see artifacts from one culture displayed on the island they came from, but it created a unique experience as a viewer that I won't soon forget. 10/10

This is a must visit if you visit any of the Minoan sites on the island. It is quite a treasury of items. Take your time because some of the best are quite small and generally in with other items. The museum is quite well laid out with good labels (Certainly much improved from 40+ years ago on my first visit). The Coffee Shop is a bit haphazard but we were served with a smile and you can sit out in the shade. Recommended if you have any interest in history.

It’s many years since I visited this museum. It is fascinating and informative. So much fantastic exhibits. Information in English guides you through the history. It cost us €10 each, for the Knossos visit on a combined ticket, it would have been €16, but we don’t have the time to visit there. We got there early and it wasn’t too busy. Downside.... THERE IS NO CAFE!!!! We were told there wouldn’t be one till Maybe next summer. A pity as after doing one floor.. refreshment would have been nice. Fortunately there’s are plenty of places in the area to enjoy a variety of refreshments.

Terrific museum. All signs and interpretations include English. Cafe and lovely terrace are open. I bought e ticket online ahead of time via links on museum website. received email QR code and skipped all lines. …though there weren’t any lines when I arrived at 10:30 am on a Thursday. Spent about 2 hours there.

We went following a visit to Knossos; we feel it is best to see the museum after the site trip, as the context is important. The musuem is exceptionally good - excellent Minoan artefacts, well displayed and explained, plus a number of other Cretan items. The museum is not huge, but we spent 3 hours looking at the exhibits. I am sure if you are on a tighter time schedule you could feel great value out of one hour. Nice little coffee shop and gift shop on site too!

Of all the days we happen to be in town, we were lucky to go on their free day. We got there right when it opened and spent a quick one hour walking through the place. If you truly read every item, you can spend many hours in here.

Just an exceptional Museum. Superbly curated (in both Greek and English) and galleries well presented to guide visitors through on a chronological journey of the region. A great early holiday stop for a deep-dive into the background to the region's history. 2-3 hrs

So many amazing things to see in this museum. You could probably spend a whole day just in this museum. There were so many very old items to see. I would say we were on overload just part way through this museum. So glad this was one of our stops at this port of call.

One of the best museums in Greece. We spent most of the afternoon here and they had to practically kick us out. If you like to take your time, appreciating every exhibit and reading carefully, you can spend a solid 5 hours here like us.

Just brilliant, the tickets were reasonable we bought ours at the museum office and that combined with access to Knossos was only €20 for the two sites. We went in the morning as recommended on TA, parking opposite for €5 and inside the museum it is well laid out with AC, small cafe and toilets. In fact I preferred the museum to Knossos which we visited in the afternoon, again a quite time to go so parking was easy.