The city's ethnographic Museum is one of the most interesting and popular attractions of the Greek city of Ioannina (capital of Epirus). Since 1933 home to the Ethnographic Museum of Ioannina was the mosque of Aslan Pasha (also known as Ali Pasha's mosque), located in the historic center of the city on the site of the Old castle (fortress) of Ioannina. The castle itself, or rather, in those days it was a well fortified city fortress, built in the early 6th century by Emperor Justinian. The mosque of Aslan Pasha was built in 1618 during the reign of in these parts of the Ottoman Empire and today is an important historical monument. In 1993, the global reconstruction of the building of the mosque.

The collection of the Municipal ethnographic Museum of Ioannina tells the history of cultural development of the region and the life and traditions of the locals (Greeks, Turks and Jews). Today in the Museum you can see various ceramics, paintings, traditional decorative items, jewelry, textiles, costumes, weapons, handmade, carved furniture and personal items that belonged to famous historical people. The Museum also holds photographs and paintings illustrating the liberation of the city and other historical events. In the walls of the Municipal ethnographic Museum regularly hosts temporary exhibitions, including historical and thematic.

On the territory of the Old castle in addition to Ethnographic Museum is also worth a visit excellent Byzantine Museum and the interesting Museum of Fotis Reakosys.