It is a historical museum presenting the local history and cultural identity of Macedonia. It preserves the memory of the Hellenistic struggles, and highlights the role of ordinary people who have left indelible traces in a diverse cultural heritage. With the tours one discovers a lesser known but important and pivotal chapter of the history of Greece and the Balkans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The museum also contains maps that are rare and hard to find anywhere else, as well as old firearms, photographs, uniforms and much more.