Archaeological and ethnographic Museum is located in Cordoba on Plaza jerónimo Páez in the former Palace of the Páez de Castillejo.

As often happens with such institutions, of Archaeological and ethnological Museum of Cordoba during its history several times changed its place. Initially, the Museum was a collection of antiquities collected from the confiscated monasteries of items and is included with Museum of Fine arts of córdoba. The first "house" Museum collections was the College of the assumption, then in 1849 they moved to the premises of the County Council and 1861, all the Museum moved into the building a Charitable hospital. Since 1920, the Museum was located in the Plaza de San Juan. In 1987 the Archaeological Museum with the assistance of Anna Maria Vicente Zaragoza moved to the Palace of the Páez de Castillejo, where it lies to this day.

Conducting new excavations, research, and replenishment of Museum collections necessitated the expansion of exhibition space. In the city program in 1998, a competition was held to design a new building intended for expansion of the Museum, which has won architectural and engineering group IDOM.

To date, the collection of the Archaeological Museum of Cordoba, which represent artifacts of different time periods, starting with the history of the Ancient world, are the most complete in the whole of Spain. At the Museum a library specializing in books and publications on the archaeology.