The Lamia Archaeological Museum is housed in the restored Othonian barrack on the akropolis of ancient Lamia, whithin the declared archaeological site of Lamia Castle. On the ground-floor of the Museum, a life size marble statue of a philosopher of Roman date, from Achinos, a group of grave stelai of types familiar in Phthiotis, and a manumission inscription from Achinos are exposed. On the first-floor landing, smaller sculptures are displayed, such as torsos, heads, and votive reliefs. The most important piece of sculpture is the marble votive relief dedicated to Artemis Eileithyia, which dates at the end of the 4th c. BC. The iconography of the above relief has been attributed to the school of Praxiteles. Cases I and Ib display finds of the Neolithic period, including characteristic pottery, tools, terracotta figurines, jewellery, and spindlewhorls. The next Cases includes finds of the Early Bronze Age (Cases II and IIb) and the Middle Bronze Age (Cases III and IIIa-b), such as characteristic examples of pottery, jewellery, figurines, and tools. One notable find of the Middle Bronze Age period is a steatite seal-amulet.In the next Case pottery, metal objects from Late Bronze Age are displayed. Cases IV and V include shcematic figurines of a man and woman, around which artefacts characteristic of each sex, such as weapons, tools, jewellery, dress accessories are arranged. In Cases VII, VIII and IX, the pottery types of Late Bronze Age and Transiotional period are set side by side, wlile Case VI includes fabulous findsof Late Bronze Age, such as gold jewellery, sealstones, figurines, and a piece from iconographic crater, from Kynos with representation of a warship. Cases X, XII and XIIa include pottery and metal objects from Protogeometric-Geometric period. In Case XI, on schematic figurines of a man and woman, objects typical of each sex, such as weapons, tools, jewellery and dress accessories are dieplayed. The large part of the display of the Archaic period is devoted to finds from the Oracle of Apollo at Kalapodi, including the roof and column capitals of the temple, the altar with its dedications, bronze tripods, small finds, weapons, mainly dedications in the sanctuary. A bronze Illyrian helmet from Eurytania is also on display. Roof and part of a cornice of an Archaic stoa with dedications from other sanctuaries in Phthiotis, among them the statuette of Artemis from Melitaia and a marble torso of Demeter have been exposed. The south room houses a display of Classikal, Hellenistic and Roman objects. Cases XV and XVI exhibit characteristic ceramic and glass vessels of the above periods. Case XVII contains a variety of clay figurines, and Case XVIII has a display of decorated pottery, including black-figure and red-figure pots, white-ground