Archaeological Museum of Florina

The Archaeological Museum of Florina began to be built in the 1960s, to receive the ancient objects from traditions and collections, which until then were housed in a shop in the city’s market. By 1970, the ground floor exhibition had been completed with works of sculpture in its three rooms, while the fourth room and the first floor housed individual showcases with ceramics from prehistoric and Hellenistic times until 1990.

In 1991, an exhibition of excavation findings from the Hellenistic cities of the region (Petres and Florina) was organized on the first floor of the Museum, while a little earlier in a section of the same floor an exhibition of Byzantine antiquities was organized by the 11th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities. In 1998, the archaeological material was re-exhibited with informative texts on the history of the Prefecture and accompanied by supervisory material, while important building improvements and restoration of the chronic building problems were preceded. The opening of the new exhibition of the Museum took place in May 1999.