The Archaeological Museum in the town of Veria - one of the most significant archaeological museums of Greek Macedonia. The museum's collection is very interesting and is of great historical value.

The museum was founded in 1965 and housed in a specially constructed building in one of the most beautiful areas of the city - Elia. The museum exhibition is presented in three exhibition halls and covers a vast period of time, ranging from the Paleolithic era until the Ottoman Empire.

In the museum you can see a magnificent collection of artifacts Hellenistic and Roman eras - sculptures, statues, various architectural fragments, bronze and ceramic products, household utensils, a variety of funerary objects, and more. Among the most interesting exhibits is to provide a perfectly preserved a bust of the god Olganos (2nd century BC), terracotta figurines of the early Roman tombs, bronze hydra (4th century BC), the sculptural group "The Hunter and boar "(3rd century BC) and funerary stela Paterinos Antigonou and Adea Kassandrou. In the courtyard of the museum numerous sarcophagi, funerary steles and statues, among which the most interesting exhibit is a Medusa's head, dating from the 2nd century BC The museum also has ancient artifacts from the Neolithic Nea Nicomedia - the oldest known settlement in Europe. The Iron Age is represented by finds from the cemetery at Vergina.

Unfortunately, a small exhibition area of ​​the Archaeological Museum does not allow to introduce permanent display all the interesting artifacts and today a significant part of the unique exhibits kept in the museum collections.