The Municipal Art Gallery in Chania has in the last two decades seen a number of major exhibitions drawn from the collections of wealthy individuals and institutions, which reflect its ambition to become a focus of both local and wider, national culture. The Gallery, situated at the top of Halidon Street in Chania, is in a 1910 town house whose renovation was completed in 2002. The interior, extending over three floors joined by a central staircase flanked by curved steel balustrades with steel rope bracings, is itself something of a work of art.