Archaeological museum of Florina, Archaeological museum in Florina, Greece

The Archaeological Museum of Florina occupies a two-story building that displays finds from many different time periods discovered in the region through excavations. The collection includes objects from prehistoric times, the Hellenistic period, Roman times, and the Byzantine era.

The two-storey building was constructed in 1969; the ground-floor display was organised in 1998 and inaugurated in May 1999, the same year the interior was renovated. The exhibition covers the Florina region from about 5800 BC to the end of the Roman period, with prehistoric finds from Armenchori and a Roman mosaic from Kato Kleines.

The exhibits include Roman grave markers, sculptures, and inscriptions that show how ancient people lived, what they believed in, and how they organized their communities. These objects come from local digs and help you understand the region's past firsthand.

The museum is easy to reach and offers displays that are understandable even without special background knowledge. It is worth spending enough time to view all the exhibition rooms and objects from the different periods.

The mammoth jaws displayed here were found at Sotiras and are dated to 200,000–500,000 years ago, far older than the last Ice Age mammoths of northern Europe. They sit in the ground-floor room on the prehistory of the Florina region, next to stone and bone tools from Armenchori.