Archaeological Museum of Lamia

The Archaeological Museum of Lamia is a museum in the archaeological site of Lamia Castle in Lamia, Greece. The museum is housed in a refurbished barracks constructed in 1830 with the aid of King Otto of Greece. It affords prehistoric and Classical antiquities, masking the Neolithic era, Helladic duration, Early Iron Age, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. The museum occupies the floor ground and a part of the primary ground of the two-storied barracks constructing.

The north corridor is mainly occupied by using prehistoric, Bronze Age and Mycaenean artifacts, even as the south corridor makes a speciality of the Late Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods. Displays on the floor ground encompass a good sized marble sculpture of a Roman truth seeker said to originate from Achinos, a group of funerary stone slabs just like the ones seen in Phthiotis, and an inscription from slave owners releasing their slaves from slavery from Achinos. In the first floor landing, small artifacts of busts, torso and votive reliefs are visible.

The archaeological museum is placed in the grounds of Lamia Castle on the acropolis of Lamia, the capital of the Fthiotida Prefecture. The citadel was at the start built in 1830 by means of Otto, the Bavarian first king of Greece after Greece attained independence. During World War II it become an military barracks. The Greek Ministry of Culture took ownership of the barracks in 1973 from the Ministry for Defence, and the Archaeological Museum of Lamia opened to the public in September 1994.