Rethymno Wax Museum

Location: Zoniana
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The Wax Museum of Potamianos is located in Zoniana, 45 km from Rethymno Town. It was founded in 1998 by Mr. Dionysis Potamianos, a painter and sculptor from Athens. It took him and his wife about 40 years to create the 87 natural-size figures that are exhibited in the museum.

In a space of about 1,000 square meters, visitors can see all the history of Crete and the most famous Cretan personalities come alive in front of their eyes. The most prominent figures in the collection are former Prime Minister of Greece Eleftherios Venizelos, writer Nikos Kazantzakis, poet Vincenzo Cornaro, and painter Dominikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco), as well as plenty of renowned fighters of the Cretan Revolution.

Apart from these wax figures, the museum also displays a large collection of coins and banknotes from various periods. You can see currency dating back to the Turkish occupation, the period of the Cretan Autonomy at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, as well as many drachmas, the official currency of Greece until 2002.

During the summer, the museum is open every day from 10:00 to 19:00.

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