Municipal Art Gallery of Chania

The Municipal Art Gallery of Chania is housed in a typical commercial industrial building of neoclassical Greek architecture in the late 19th and early 20th century in Halidon street, on the way to the Venetian harbor of Chania and near the Archaeological Museum of Chania . It started its operation in early 2003 and houses a remarkable collection of about 700 works, either paintings or carvings of famous Greek artists such as Dimitris Mytaras , Spyros Vassiliou , Vaso Katraki , Dimitris Galanis , Spyros Vikatos , Andreas Georgiadis and several Cretan artists.

Apart from the permanent collection, temporary exhibitions are organized frequently and admission is free for everybody.