The Museum of Ligurian Archaeology was inaugurated in 1936 and reopened in 1953 after post-war reconstruction.

An exhibition was created on the life, occupations, and economy of the peoples who anciently inhabited Liguria.

The artifacts came from the caves of the Riviera di Ponente (Balzi Rossi, caves of Toirano, caves of the Finalese) and included tombs of Ligurian warriors from the Iron Age and the funerary goods from the pre-Roman necropolis of Genoa.

In addition, there are testimonies of Ligurian cities in Roman times, Egyptian antiquities from the d'Albertis collection, and a collection of ancient vases donated to the city by Prince Oddone of Savoy.

The expanded exhibition, in the 2000s, is equipped with numerous educational supports and develops in 13 rooms, narrating according to a chronological criterion the various epochs of prehistory in Liguria thanks to the Paleolithic burials from the Arene Candide cave, the rich funerary goods of the pre-Roman necropolis of Genoa; the excavations of the cities of Roman Liguria; the collection of Greek and Roman antiquities of Prince Oddone of Savoy; two rooms dedicated to the Egyptian collection and the Roman marbles.