The museum is housed in the Venetian Church of San Francesco (in Chania) and exhibits important finds dating from the Neolithic and Minoan periods to the late Roman one.

Those finds have been excavated from the region of Chania and of the western Crete. The most important parts of the exhibition are a collection of vases and weapons from the Minoan necropolis, a collection of Early Geometric and Geometric pottery and Hellenistic statues, a collection of wonderful mosaics from Chania, Classical and Hellenistic figurines, glass vessels from Greco-Romans times, a collection of coins and various other items. The museum is located on 21, Halidon Street.