Anthropological Museum of Petralona

The Anthropological Museum of Petralona is thirty-five kilometres from Thessaloniki, in Central Macedonia, Greece. It displays finds from the nearby Petralona cave, in which the oldest European hominid skull was found. The village of Petralona, Chalkidiki is on the old Thessaloniki–Nea Moudania national highway. The cave and the anthropological museum are a further 2 km beyond the village. The museum was built and financed in 1978 by the Anthropological Society of Greece (AEE), which owns it. It opened in 1979. The purpose of the museum is to showcase the finds from the Petralona cave, the prehistoric culture of Greece, and finds representing the entire palaeoanthropological area of Greece. Media related to Anthropological Museum (Petralona) at Wikimedia Commons* Page at site of the Anthropological Society of Greece