Archaeological Museum of Istria is located near the Arch of Sergius Pula. Municipal Museum and the Museum of Antiquities was established here in 1902. Education museums began with a collection of stone sculptures and ceramic and metal objects. After that, the collection was moved Pula Society of archeology and local history of Istria in Porec. City Museum received a new collection from the expansion of the Museum Foundation took the new space. In 1930, he gets it, and the doors of the museum open to visitors.

The museum is located on the eastern edge of the settlement of prehistoric settlements in the Roman colony pole. After the war, when it came time the Anglo-American administration, the collection was partly exported to Italy. Only in 1961 it was able to return artifacts taken out through the system and serious efforts of the museum staff.

In 1973, after a long restoration was opened an exhibition hall on the first floor, there are placed collections dedicated to the most ancient and ancient history. Exhibitions dedicated to late antiquity and the Middle Ages, located on the second floor of the museum.

The museum displays objects found during archaeological excavations in Istria. We studied the prehistoric caves, the ruins of cemeteries, ancient cities, buildings and cemeteries, as well as early Christian and Byzantine buildings. The permanent collection of the museum presents exhibits depicting the development of the material culture of Istria from the Paleolithic / Neolithic and Bronze Age to Roman times, late antiquity, the early Middle Ages and the period of feudalism. It put a lot of exhibits: collections of glass, ceramics, metal, portraits, decorative sculptures, building materials, jewelry, clothing, etc.

The museum consists of several departments: the Department of Archaeology, Department of documentation, the Department of Education and restoration, as well as libraries. In addition to the main building of the museum has an amphitheater, as well as under his tutelage is the Temple of Augustus and the Franciscan monastery in Nesaktiume.