Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum of Granada is located in a building called the Casa Castril. This building is located in the Carrera del Darro, a prime example of a Renaissance palace. Casa Castril once belonged to Hernando de Zafra, who served as secretary to the Catholic Monarchs, and his family. Castril Palace was built in 1539 and the project by architect Sebastian de Alcantara, a student of outstanding Spanish architect and sculptor Diego of Siloam. Once upon a time in the same building housed and Granada Museum of Fine Arts, until such time as it is not transferred to the Palace of Charles V at the Alhambra.

Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum occupies the first two floors of the building. Its collections are housed in seven rooms, each dedicated to a specific historical period. The museum has a hall dedicated to the Paleolithic era, which exhibits historical findings relating to this period. There is a hall with an exhibition of the Bronze Age, rooms dedicated to Iberian, Roman, Phoenician, Arab culture, where are a lot of artifacts found mostly in the vicinity of Granada. Here you can see weapons, dishes, vases, jewelry, lamps, brass, unique ceramics.

Exhibited in the museum collections show visitors the continuous evolution of life on the territory of modern Granada, since the Paleolithic and Neolithic, economic and social development of humanity in this region.