The Archaeological Museum of Granada is an archaeological museum in the Albayzín

Albayzín

El Albayzín is a district of present day Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, that retains the narrow winding streets of its Medieval Moorish past...

 district, Granada

Granada

Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, the Beiro, the Darro and the Genil. It sits at an elevation of 738 metres above sea...

, Spain

Spain

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The museum is located at 41, Carrera del Darro in the Castril palace

Castril palace

The Castril palace is a Renaissance style palace located in the Spanish city of Granada. Nowadays it hosts the Archaeological Museum of Granada....

 from the 16th century. It hosts many artefact

Artifact (archaeology)

An artifact or artefact is "something made or given shape by man, such as a tool or a work of art, esp an object of archaeological interest"...

s from the many different civilizations that settled in Granada including the Carthaginians, the Phoenicians, the Romans

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 and the Arabs. It includes a beautiful Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

 patio

Patio

A patio is an outdoor space generally used for dining or recreation that adjoins a residence and is typically paved. It may refer to a roofless inner courtyard of the sort found in Spanish-style dwellings or a paved area between a residence and a garden....

. Its façade dates from 1593.

See also

• National Archaeological Museum of Spain
  National Archaeological Museum of Spain
  The National Archaeological Museum of Spain is a museum in Madrid, Spain, located beside the Plaza de Colón , sharing its building with the National Library....
  
  
• Archaeological Museum of Alicante
  Archaeological Museum of Alicante
  The Archaeological Museum of Alicante is an archaeological museum in Alicante, Spain. The museum won the European Museum of the Year Award in 2004, a few years after significant expansion and reallocation to renovated buildings of the antique hospital of San Juan de Dios...
  
  
• Archaeology Museum of Catalonia
  Archaeology Museum of Catalonia
  The Archaeology Museum of Catalonia was created under the Museums of Catalonia Act in 1990 by the Department of Culture of the Government of the Spanish of Catalonia, in Spain. The head office is located in the former Palace of Graphic Arts, which was built for the 1929 World's Fair, in Barcelona...
  
  
• List of museums in Spain