One of the most interesting sights of the Greek city of Ioannina, undoubtedly, is the Archaeological Museum. It is located in the heart of the park Litharitsa.

The museum building was designed by the famous Greek architect Aris Konstantinidis back in the 1960s. Summer of 1970, the Archaeological Museum opened its doors to visitors. Prior to the 90s in the museum is temporarily housed the collections of Byzantine and post-Byzantine era, as well as works by Greek artists 19-20-X centuries. Between 2003 and 2008, the museum was closed for major reconstruction.

Today, the collection of the Archaeological Museum of Ioannina contains about 3,000 unique artifacts collected from all over Epirus and perfectly illustrates the history and development of the culture of this region. The museum exposition covers a vast period of time from the Paleolithic period, and up to late antiquity. The exhibition area covers about 1200 sq.m. (main hall, seven rooms and three galleries). The exhibits are divided into topics and geography and are presented in chronological order.

In the Archaeological Museum you can see ceramics, sculptures, funeral steles and other funerary artifacts, inscriptions, housewares, jewelry, tools, a fine collection of coins and much more. Among the most valuable exhibits is worth noting silicon bifaces (ax) Acheulean type (Lower Paleolithic, about 200,000 BC), bronze jug from ancient burial site near Vitsa (540-520 BC), a marble statue in the form of burial Lion of Michalitsi and a bronze helmet from home at Wits (both the second half of the 4th century BC), a marble sarcophagus from Ladohori, Thesprotia (2nd century BC), a funeral stele from Plaisia ​​(end of 3 th - beginning of the 2nd century BC), etc. But of particular interest are the relics of the ancient sanctuary of Dodona - one of the great oracles of the ancient world, among them a bronze statuette of a boy with a dove in his left hand (3rd century BC).