Archaeological and ethnological Museum of Granada is located in a building called Casa Castril. This building, located in the Carrera del Darro, is a Prime example of a Renaissance Palace. Casa Castril once belonged to Hernando de Zafra, who served as Secretary of the Catholic monarchs, and his family. Castril Palace was built in 1539 on the project and under the guidance of architect Sebastian de Alcantara, a pupil of the famous Spanish architect and sculptor Siloam Diego. Once in the same building was located and the Granada Museum of fine arts, up until that moment, until they moved to the Palace of Charles V in the Alhambra.

Archaeological and ethnographic Museum occupies the first two floors of the building. His collection housed in seven rooms, each devoted to a certain historical period. The Museum has a hall devoted to the Paleolithic era, which exhibits historical findings related to this period. There is a hall with an exhibition of the bronze age, the halls dedicated to the Iberian, Roman, Phoenician, Arab culture, where many of the artifacts found mainly in the surroundings of Granada. Here you can see the weapons, utensils, vases, ornaments, lamps of brass, unique ceramics.

Exhibited in the Museum collection show visitors the ongoing evolution of life on the territory of modern Granada, from the Paleolithic and Neolithic, economic and social development of humanity in this region.