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The museum is housed in the katholikon of the Venetian monastery of St. Francis. During the period of the Turkish occupation it was the Muslim mosque of Yussuf Pasha, while in modern times it was used as a cinema or a storehouse for military equipment. Since 1963 it has been functioning as the Archaeological Museum of the city.
 It contains impressive finds from the excavations of the ancient city of Kydonia, from Idramia, Aptera, Polyrinia, Kissamos, Elyros, Irtakina, Syia, Lissos, Chania, Axos, and Lappas (the last two in the prefecture of Rethymno).

Apart from the permanent exhibition, the museum houses temporary exhibitions in the frame of certain local events (such as the exhibition of musical instruments or on the birth of writing), as well as music concerts.

The collections include:

• Minoan finds from the city of Chania

• Prehistoric finds from caves

• Minoan items from various sites in the prefecture

• Finds from graves of the Geometric period

• Finds from the city of Chania, dated to historic times

• Finds from other towns of the Chania prefecture

• Coins

• Jewellery (prehistoric and historic times)

• Sculpture, inscriptions, stelae

• Mosaics

The most important items of the exhibition are:

Clay sealing from Kasteli, near Chania, with a representation of a Minoan city and its patron deity. Dated to the second half of the 15th century B.C.

Clay tablet inscribed with signs of the Linear A script from Kasteli near Chania, dated to 1450 B.C.

Small clay tablets with texts in Linear B script, from Kasteli near Chania. Dated to 1300 B.C.

Clay bathtub used as funerary larnax. It was found in a grave at the Koubes quarter of modern Chania and dates to 1300-1200 B.C.

Clay pyxis with a representation of a kithara player. It comes from a chamber tomb in the area of Koiliaris in Kalyves-Aptera and dates to 1300-1200 B.C.

Cold disks from a female pithos burial from Pelekapina near Chania. Dated to the Geometric period (early 9th century B.C.).

Head of a clay figurine from a female burial in a family rock-cut tomb in the city of Chania. Dated to the end of the 4th century B.C.

Clay figurine of a mourner from a subterranean rock-cut tomb in the city of Chania. Dated to the end of 4th or the beginning of the 3rd century B.C.

Mosaic floor decorated with a representation of Dionysos and Ariadne. It was found in Chania and dates to the 3rd century A.D.