Considering the Hotel Mirabello in Heraklion?
A VT member wrote the following comment about visiting Heraklion:
The Museum of Natural History by AndyRG
It is the only one museum of its kind in Crete, about 5 km south of Irakleio, near Knossos. You see there effigies of animals, collections of plants, fossils, beds of rock, photos. A small botanical garden is at the courtyard of the building.