Μουσείο Φυσικής Ιστορίας Κρήτης
Converted power-plant hall housing a Mediterranean-wide natural history collection, from live Cretan ecosystems to a giant fossil elephant relative.
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This guide to the Natural History Museum of Crete in Heraklion follows a girl gathering wild greens near Sitia in 2002, who felt a bone under her hand instead of a stem, and the dig that followed once researchers were called in. It traces the animal that dig uncovered, a prehistoric relative of the elephant that walked Crete millions of years ago, and how the discovery reached this converted power-station hall. The museum itself once ran the city's electricity before it became a home for Cretan natural history.
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