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    Heraklion Archaeological Museum artifacts display, showcasing ancient Greek sculptures and pottery.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum artifacts display, showcasing ancient Minoan pottery and sculptures.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum artifacts display in Crete, Greece.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum artifacts display, showcasing ancient Greek sculptures and pottery.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum artifacts display, showcasing ancient Minoan pottery and sculptures.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum artifacts display in Crete, Greece.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum artifacts display, showcasing ancient Greek sculptures and pottery.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum artifacts display, showcasing ancient Minoan pottery and sculptures.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum artifacts display in Crete, Greece.
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    Heraklion Archaelogical Museum Entry Ticket

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    • Head right to the front of the line with these entry tickets to the Heraklion Archaeological Museum and indulge in a world of precious artifacts and important history of the Minoan civilization.
    • Visit the period rooms that help you with a chronological representation of the ways of the civilization.
    • Browse through a complete collection of artifacts that include priceless remains of Greek history and date back 5000 years.
    • Visit exhibits such as the Phaistos Disk and the “Snake Goddess” for a deeper insight on your tour.
    • Marvel at precious Minoan art and frescos that are centuries old.
    • Head right to the front of the line with these entry tickets to the Heraklion Archaeological Museum and indulge in a world of precious artifacts and important history of the Minoan civilization.
    • Visit the period rooms that help you with a chronological representation of the ways of the civilization.
    • Browse through a complete collection of artifacts that include priceless remains of Greek history and date back 5000 years.
    • Visit exhibits such as the Phaistos Disk and the “Snake Goddess” for a deeper insight on your tour.
    • Marvel at precious Minoan art and frescos that are centuries old.

    Inclusions

    • Entry tickets to to Heraklion Archaeological Museum
    • These tickets can't be cancelled or rescheduled.
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    The audio was boring and repetitive. Also there was no Spanish version

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    Heraklion Archaeological Museum entrance with visitors using audio guides.
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    Heraklion Archaeological Museum entrance with visitors using audio guides.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum entrance with visitors using audio guides.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum entrance with visitors using audio guides.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum entrance with visitors using audio guides.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum entrance with visitors using audio guides.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum entrance with visitors using audio guides.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum entrance with visitors using audio guides.
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    Heraklion Archaeological Museum entrance with visitors using audio guides.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum entrance with visitors using audio guides.
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    Heraklion Archaeological Museum Ticket & Audio Guide

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    Mobile ticket
    Flexible duration
    • Experience the Heraklion Archaeological Museum – one of the most famous museums in Europe and home to the most priceless pieces of Minoan history and art.
    • With an English or German audio guide to download onto your smartphone, explore this vast collection of antiquities at your own pace.
    • Travel back in time as you study artifacts from Cretan prehistory and history, dated over 5,500 years from the Neolithic period to Roman times.
    • Some exhibits you surely shouldn’t miss are the Golden Bee Pendant, Phaistos Disc, Snake Goddess, Stone Bull's Head Rhyton, and King Mino’s Ring.
    • Admire Minoan frescoes such as the Bull-Leaping Fresco, Prince of the Lilies, Ladies in Blue, and more.
    • Your in-depth guide will share both historical information and 80+ lesser-known anecdotes from ancient times. Feel free to listen to this guide after your visit, too.
    • Experience the Heraklion Archaeological Museum – one of the most famous museums in Europe and home to the most priceless pieces of Minoan history and art.
    • With an English or German audio guide to download onto your smartphone, explore this vast collection of antiquities at your own pace.
    • Travel back in time as you study artifacts from Cretan prehistory and history, dated over 5,500 years from the Neolithic period to Roman times.
    • Some exhibits you surely shouldn’t miss are the Golden Bee Pendant, Phaistos Disc, Snake Goddess, Stone Bull's Head Rhyton, and King Mino’s Ring.
    • Admire Minoan frescoes such as the Bull-Leaping Fresco, Prince of the Lilies, Ladies in Blue, and more.
    • Your in-depth guide will share both historical information and 80+ lesser-known anecdotes from ancient times. Feel free to listen to this guide after your visit, too.

    Inclusions

    • Admission to all parts of the Museum
    • Self-guided English or German audio tour for your smartphone (Android & iOS only)
    • Offline content (text, audio narration, and maps)

    Exclusions

    • Live Guide
    • Smartphone and headphones
    • Transfers and transportation
    • This Museum experience is suitable for wheelchair users.
    • Photography (without flash and tripods) is allowed.
    • Be sure to download your ticket and audio tour in advance while connected to Wi-Fi, as mobile signals at the site may be unreliable.
    • You’ll need storage space on your phone to download the audio guide (100-150 MB).
    • The audio tour is incompatible with Windows Phones, iPhone 5/5C or older, iPod Touch 5th generation or older, iPad 4th generation or older, and iPad Mini 1st generation.
    • After booking, you’ll receive an email with detailed instructions for accessing and downloading your audio tour. Don’t forget to check your spam or junk folder in case it lands there.
    • Make sure your smartphone is fully charged and bring your headphones to enjoy the audio tour without interruptions.
    • Keep in mind that entrance queues can be long, so you may need to wait before entering.
    • These tickets can't be cancelled or rescheduled.
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    Combo of Knossos Palace & Heraklion Archaeological Museum
    Visitors exploring Knossos Palace ruins in Heraklion, Greece, with audio tour guide.
    Knossos Palace interior with ancient red pillars and frescoes, Crete, Greece.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum entrance with visitors exploring exhibits.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum artifacts and Knossos ruins with audio tour guide.
    Ancient frescoes and columns inside Knossos Palace, Crete, showcasing Minoan architecture.
    Knossos Palace ruins with tourists exploring, Heraklion Archaeological Museum audio guide experience.
    Bull-leaping fresco at Knossos Palace, Crete, depicting ancient Minoan ritual.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum artifacts and Knossos ruins with audio tour guide.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum artifacts and Knossos ruins with audio tour guide.
    Combo of Knossos Palace & Heraklion Archaeological Museum
    Visitors exploring Knossos Palace ruins in Heraklion, Greece, with audio tour guide.
    Knossos Palace interior with ancient red pillars and frescoes, Crete, Greece.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum entrance with visitors exploring exhibits.
    Heraklion Archaeological Museum artifacts and Knossos ruins with audio tour guide.
    Ancient frescoes and columns inside Knossos Palace, Crete, showcasing Minoan architecture.
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    Bull-leaping fresco at Knossos Palace, Crete, depicting ancient Minoan ritual.
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    Heraklion Archaeological Museum artifacts and Knossos ruins with audio tour guide.
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    Visitors exploring Knossos Palace ruins in Heraklion, Greece, with audio tour guide.
    Knossos Palace interior with ancient red pillars and frescoes, Crete, Greece.
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    Ancient frescoes and columns inside Knossos Palace, Crete, showcasing Minoan architecture.
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    Bull-leaping fresco at Knossos Palace, Crete, depicting ancient Minoan ritual.
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    Heraklion Archaeological Museum artifacts and Knossos ruins with audio tour guide.
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    Combo: Knossos Palace & Heraklion Archaeological Museum Tickets with Audio Guide

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    Audio guide
    • With this smart combo, experience two of the top archaeological attractions of Crete – the Heraklion Archaeological Museum and the Knossos Palace.
    • With an English or German audio guide to download onto your smartphone at both the Museum and Palace, explore the deep history and artifacts of these attractions at your own pace.
    • The Heraklion Archaeological Museum is one of the most famous museums in Europe, home to the most priceless pieces of Minoan history and art.
    • Some exhibits you surely shouldn’t miss are the Golden Bee Pendant, Phaistos Disc, Snake Goddess, Stone Bull's Head Rhyton, and King Mino’s Ring.
    • Admire Minoan frescoes such as the Bull-Leaping Fresco, Prince of the Lilies, Ladies in Blue, and more.
    • The Knossos Palace is one of the oldest and most luxurious palaces in the world with impressive ruins and the brightly-colored frescoes.
    • Explore the corridors of King Minos’ Palace and the South Propylaeum, depicting the activities of everyday life.
    • Gaze out onto the imposing view of Mount Juktas from the South Entrance Corridor and learn about ritualism and pastoral life in Minoan Crete.
    • Your in-depth audio guides will share more than 160 stories, anecdotes, and information that can be repeated even after your visit.
    • With this smart combo, experience two of the top archaeological attractions of Crete – the Heraklion Archaeological Museum and the Knossos Palace.
    • With an English or German audio guide to download onto your smartphone at both the Museum and Palace, explore the deep history and artifacts of these attractions at your own pace.
    • The Heraklion Archaeological Museum is one of the most famous museums in Europe, home to the most priceless pieces of Minoan history and art.
    • Some exhibits you surely shouldn’t miss are the Golden Bee Pendant, Phaistos Disc, Snake Goddess, Stone Bull's Head Rhyton, and King Mino’s Ring.
    • Admire Minoan frescoes such as the Bull-Leaping Fresco, Prince of the Lilies, Ladies in Blue, and more.
    • The Knossos Palace is one of the oldest and most luxurious palaces in the world with impressive ruins and the brightly-colored frescoes.
    • Explore the corridors of King Minos’ Palace and the South Propylaeum, depicting the activities of everyday life.
    • Gaze out onto the imposing view of Mount Juktas from the South Entrance Corridor and learn about ritualism and pastoral life in Minoan Crete.
    • Your in-depth audio guides will share more than 160 stories, anecdotes, and information that can be repeated even after your visit.

    Inclusions

    • Adult time-slotted e-ticket for Knossos Palace
    • Adult time-slotted e-ticket for Heraklion Archaeological Museum
    • 2 Self-guided audio tours on your smartphone (Android and iOS)
    • Offline content for both audio tours (text, audio narration, and maps)

    Exclusions

    • Live Guide
    • Smartphone and headphones
    • Food and drinks
    • Hotel transfers and transportation
    • App is incompatible with Windows phones
    • Follow the itinerary below based on your selected time slot:
    • Thursday - Tuesday: 8am Knossos and 1pm Heraklion Archaeological Museum
    • Wednesdays: 8am Knossos and 1pm Heraklion Archaeological Museum
    • The audio tour is available to download only on iOS and Android.
    • Ensure that your smartphone is fully charged, and be sure to carry your headphones/earphones.
    • Be sure to download your ticket and audio guide in advance while connected to Wi-Fi, as mobile signal strength at the site may be unreliable.
    • Once you’ve booked, you’ll receive an email with detailed instructions on how to access and download your audio tour. Don’t forget to check your spam folder if you don’t see it in your inbox.
    • Carry a photo ID such as a passport, government ID, or driver’s license.
    • Free/reduced admission tickets don’t have fast access privileges and can only be acquired at the ticket booth on-site at both attractions.
    • These are self-guided audio tours: there's no live guide or meeting point.
    • The specified time applies to your admission into the Palace of Knossos. You have the flexibility to access and explore the Archaeological Site at your own pace after visiting the palace.
    • These tickets can't be cancelled or rescheduled.
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    Agustin
    Oct 2024Verified booking
    3/5

    I would like to make a difference in my experience at the Palace of Knossos, the place deserves a very good rating, but the attention, a 0, a HUGE zero. In contrast, my experience at the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, both the place and the attention of its staff, deserves the highest rating, outstanding. In the Palace of Knossos, the staff was very rude and not at all helpful, something that surprised me a lot because of the difference in treatment that there is in my country, Peru, a country known for the kindness of its people, where the attention to tourists is first class. At Knossos, from the entrance, although I had the information on my cell phone, the person at the window was very dismissive and did not try to help me to identify the document I needed to show him. I then went to the second checkpoint, the entrance itself and it was the same, I asked a question and not only did they not answer me, they chose to say that my question was not their job and that was it. I did the tour on my own, and the audio guide didn't help at all, it's just a summary of the history, not an audio guide, explaining what you see. I have visited places like the Killing Fields in Cambodia, where the Khmer Rouge murdered people and the audio guide is REALLY an audio guide, it explains every place you see, the audio guide at Knossos is NO AUDIO GUIDE. After two hours and some queues -there were hundreds of tourists traveling in groups- at my exit, after examining the places visited I asked one of the employees that were nearby about the fresco of the dolphins, which I had not seen I had understood that it was no longer in the Palace and that individual was very rude, I preferred to skip it and ask another person who confirmed my doubt. My visit to the Archaeological Museum, on the other hand, was very positive. As I finished my visit to the Palace of Knossos, I went to the Museum two hours earlier than I had registered and at the entrance it was explained to me that I had to return at the scheduled time or one hour earlier or later than scheduled, which I understood. As there were too many people, I was concerned about going around the Museum and seeing the most important works and at certain times I had to ask for help from the staff who always attended me kindly, besides being very well informed. At the end of the visit, I noticed that I had not visited a part of the Museum, so I went back, but I did not find it, I asked one of the Museum staff and she explained that this sector was temporarily closed, responding kindly.

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    Pamela
    Oct 2024Verified booking
    4/5

    The Minoan palace of Knossos is a must-see when in Crete and we got a feel for the place that you could only get in person when we visited both Knossos and the Heraklion Archaeological Museum in October. Ticketing through Headout worked well: I downloaded tickets for two of us to my phone and they were scanned at entry. For both venues there is a scheduled entry time and it would have been helpful to have times closer together. As it was, our entry time at Knossos was in the morning (a good idea to avoid crowds) but our museum entry not until 5 pm so we had to fill the time with other activities. The downloadable guides to both venues were helpful. We followed along with earbuds at Knossos and didn't feel like we missed having a live tour guide. In fact it gave us flexibility to move at our own pace and pause when we wanted to. Glad we did both venues as Knossos is just ruins with some reconstructed sections, while the museum fills in gaps with art, paintings, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, tools, etc., that actually came from the palace site. It was a great learning experience.

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    Claudia
    Sep 2024Verified booking
    3/5

    The audio guide ok, well done and interesting. I bought the combo ticket on line: I am a journalist over 65 and theoretically I wouldn't have to pay! But there was no senior option and free admission could only be obtained on the spot. The worst thing, however, was the fact that having chosen the site visit at 10 a.m. we were scheduled to visit the museum at 5 p.m.! Since our hotel was over 2 hours away, we bought the tickets again.

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    Maria-Grazia
    Sep 2024Verified booking
    3/5

    Comprehensive audio guide, good content, clear directions with useful photos. We were assigned a visiting time for the Heraklion museum (h.5-6 p.m.) that was incompatible with the need to leave for our location almost 3 hours away and too far from the time of our chosen Knossos excavations visit (h.10 a.m.): we had to buy back the museum ticket in order to get in at 3 p.m. Also, we could not benefit online from the over-65 discount.

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    Nacera
    Sep 2024Verified booking
    3/5

    Easy to book. But the service provider should have indicated the visiting times for the 2 sites to be visited. The one for the archaeological museum was missing and for good reason it was much later... we waited 1 hour on site.

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    Katie
    Aug 2024Verified booking
    4/5

    Easy to book. Downloaded App and was able to to download tickets to it so easy to open when out without wifi. Bought combo ticket for Knossos and archeological museum. Chose 8am entry got Knossos but was automatically given a 1pm entry got museum - we arrived 10.30am do had to go away and come back 12pm as they wouldn't let us in more than 1hr before ticket time. Both palace & museum fab. X

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    Alessandro
    Sep 2024Verified booking
    5/5

    Very nice museum indeed, very well explained and with very usable spaces

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    Rusanka
    Oct 2024Verified booking
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    Iacopo
    Oct 2024Verified booking
    2/5

    At the eraklion museum, they closed the most interesting rooms to the public without warning before purchasing tickets....

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    Karen
    Oct 2024Verified booking
    1/5

    As there were delays in arriving at the venues, and the ticket times were very restricted, I lost both tickets. And when I made the purchase, I wasn't told about the absolute need to enter during this period. I made similar purchases in Athens, and there the ticket could even be used for 3 days. You should make it very clear on the sales page that the ticket will only be accepted at the specified intervals.

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    Greg
    Oct 2024Verified booking
    1/5

    I loved seeing Knossos Palace and was very excited to see the Museum. I Booked the tickets as our taxi driver drove us from our hotel, Pheae Blue Palace near Plaka to the sight. We had to spend 270 euros to get there. We knew our entry time to the Knossos Palace was 10:00-11:00 but had no idea the entry ticket to the museum was not until 16:00. We only had our driver for 5 hours and when we told the museum attendents of our problem they said since we booked it through you our only option was to buy another ticket.

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    John
    Sep 2024Verified booking
    1/5

    I was only able to pick the time of my visit to Knossos Palace & a default time was chosen for my museum passes with an absurdly long break between the two. I wasted my money.

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    Dolne
    Jun 2024Verified booking
    5/5

    + Hôtel magnifique , très propre , nourriture variée et très bonne, personnel très aimable, plusieurs piscines et restaurants, - pas de lit King size, pas de sport football pour adultes, pas d'activité le dimanche et peu d'animation le soir pour les adultes, piscine froide pour l Aqua Park

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