Archaeological Museum

The Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki is a historical center in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. It holds and deciphers ancient rarities from the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods, for the most part from the city of Thessaloniki yet additionally from the locale of Macedonia as a rule. The exhibition hall is housed in a building outlined by designer Patroklos Karantinos and is a case of the advanced engineering patterns of Greece.

Worked in 1962, the gallery had another wing added to it in 1980, in which the discoveries from Vergina were shown, up until 1997. In 2001 and 2004, in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics, the gallery was broadly revamped and its lasting displays redesigned. The focal rooms hold shows from the archeological unearthings directed in Thessaloniki and the more extensive zone of Macedonia.

Aside from its lasting showcases, the Archeological Museum likewise has significant brief and topical displays. In the Manolis Andronikos Room, for example, there is a presentation titled The Coins of Macedonia from the sixth Century to 148 BC, with cases of coins that were circling in Macedonia in that period. A feature in the entryway of the exhibition hall shows a few finds from the exhuming of the Neolithic settlement at Makrygialos in Pieria, joined by data about the advance of the uncovering.