The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum in Varvaroi village (Myrtia) in Heraklion, Crete, was inaugurated on June 27, 1983 by the Minister of Culture Melina Merkouri, in the presence of Eleni N. Kazantzakis, widow and life companion of Nikos Kazantzakis.
The Historical Museum of Crete is located in Heraklion and was founded in 1953 by the Society of Cretan Historical Studies. It includes a large part of the archives of Nikos Kazantzakis and two rooms of the museum are dedicated to a faithful reconstruction of Nikos Kazantzakis's library and study.
The Nikos Sofialakis Center of Neoclassical Sculpture is located in Ano Ilisia, Athens, at the very spot of the historic atelier of the great Cretan sculptor, Nikos Sofialakis, and hosts the permanent exhibition of his works. Sofialakis was a dear friend of Nikos Kazantzakis, articulating his 'Cretan glance' in the contours of the works The Defender (The Execution Pole of Agia) and the Enslaved Greek Child (Child of the Occupation), two ideas which the author himself committed to the sculptor to be 'written in marble', and which today epitomize the vision and expression of the Cretan spirit against adversity in life and the battle one wages for freedom.