From the very first days the museum opened its doors, the foundation has made full use of the collections, promoting them through print publications.

The foundation's activities now also extend to multimedia publications drawing on and promoting the museum's digital resources.

The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum has produced a sizeable collection of publications on the museum's history and operation, as well as on the life and work of Nikos Kazantzakis.

In chronological order, the publications are:

  •  Litsa Chatzopoulou, Kazantzakis through the Museum collections, Heraklion 2008 [in Greek, English, German, French]
  • Yiorgos Anemoyiannis, Nikos Kazantzakis 1883-1957, an Illustrated Biography, 2nd edition, Athens 2001 [in Greek] 
  • Yiorgos Anemoyiannis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Sketches from Mount Athos (translated from the French by E. I. Anemoyiannis), Athens 2001 [in Greek] 
  • G. Anemogiannis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Ein Weg Zur Ewigkeit [A Road to Eternity], 1999 [in German] 
  • Yiorgos Anemoyiannis, The Other Kazantzakis, Athens 1997 [in Greek] 
  • Yiorgos Anemoyiannis, Nikos Kazantzakis Writing... to Nikos Stavridakis. Unpublished Letters, Athens 1995 [in Greek]
  • Thanassis Papathanassopoulos, Nikos Kazantzakis Writing..., Unpublished Letters, Athens 1988 [in Greek, out of print]
  • Yiorgos Anemoyiannis, Nikos Kazantzakis, A Path to Eternity, Athens 1987 [in Greek]
  • Yiorgos Anemoyiannis, The Chronicle of a Creation, Unpublished Correspondence between Kazantzakis and Martinu, Athens 1986 [in Greek, out of print] 
  • Unpublished Letters by Kazantzakis - From Youth to Maturity, Athens 1979 [in Greek, out of print]

New media publications

The museum has released the following new media publications:

Nikos Kazantzakis, a restive traveller

Documentary animated (DVD) for children aged 8-13 years old.

A Nikos Kazantzakis Museum production, 2008

Financed: O.P. "Culture"

Production-Script-Direction: K. Evangelakou

Academic advisors: Thanassis Agathos, F. Papandoniou

Image documentation: V. Tsaka, A. Leventis

Art direction: K. Charitopoulos

Animators: G. Foukarakis, G. Bigiakis

Editing: A. Gasparinatos

Music: S. Voudris

Actors: K. Apostolakis, S. Gialitakis, V. Petropoulos, G. Mathianakis, E. Ranoutsou, K. Metaxakis, P. Mavromatidis.

Nikos Kazantzakis, Life and Work

A multilingual DVD-Rom on the life and work of Nikos Kazantzakis.

A Nikos Kazantzakis Museum production, 2006 

Financed: O.P. "Information Society" 

Created by the University of Crete Multimedia Laboratory 

Production manager: Kyriakos Papadakis 

Director: Yiorgos Papaconstantinou 

Scripting: Ioulia Pentazou 

Texts: Litsa Chatzopoulou