Highly recommended before you visit all the other neolithic sites. It puts all the sites into context. Great display of many original artifacts removed from their original sites for safe keeping. The neolithic artifacts are amazing. Surprised at the decoration on many of these 5000 year old objects

This museum really is a must if you are interested in the past. It is very informative with helpful posted descriptions. There are also a few excellent video screens. The highlights, of course, are the amazing sculptures and artifacts that have been found on the Island. I would strongly recommend going with sufficient time to proceed through the museum at your own pace. I could easily have spent a few hours there. You will enjoy it.

I can't imagine a better way to spend an afternoon in Valletta than this museum, with a history from different sites around the island distilled into a few well-organized rooms. After looking at the Malta time line for context, you visit rooms for many of the fascinating periods the island experienced seen in the context of its structures and artifacts. The temple sites (which date prior to the pyramids) in many case have replicas of the amazing embellished stones and fertility sculptures displayed here. The Phoenicians and Bronze Age are also well documented along with a coin collection going back to Roman times.

This museum covers the early history on Malta mainly the mega impressive Neolithic temple builders. Here is the home of the amazing artifacts excavated in the temples and taken here to exhibit and preserve them. They are some of the earliest human-like figures found, gods or human form, just use your own imagination. The museum goes up to the Phoenician Period, and maybe takes around and hour or just over to look around. We did this before we visited the temples and thought it gave us a better understanding of the temples stories. The highlight for us was the Sleeping Lady, smaller than we had imagined and all the more impressive for it, fantastic craftspeople from the past. It was only five euros to enter, but we purchased our Malta Discount cards here, which gives half price entry into Most Heritage Malta sites and discount on some other Attractions, Tours and Restaurants, for 37 euros each card does 2 adults & 3 children. so for us 3 adults it cost 74 euros as we had to buy 2 cards. We found it did save quite a lot of money as we did see a lot of HM sites. Check out the website. We almost bought the Heritage Malta cards, but with some of the more expensive site shut it didn't look like such a good buy. They are 50 euros each person, and allow free entry to all there sites, apart from the hypogeum. So it would have been 150 euros, but with no access to the Grand Masters Palace, The Armoury or the Maritime museum. We decided on the Discount card, which seem for us in November the better option and worked out well for us.

Interesting collection that tells the national story of Malta's ancient past. Great display of material from the neolithic temples including Tarxien and the sleeping lady from the Hypogeum. The story continues into the bronze age, and the Phoenicians. Small display on the cart tracks. You can also see the painted hall, which was being g restored. It's not huge but does contain very nice items.

This is a cute little museum right in the heart of the city centre. It is small with no air conditioning, so it was a bit stuffy with a large group of tourists. There are some very good displays and priceless artifacts. Signage is good so you can understand in English. Worth a short stop.

This museum is one of the most important in Malta as it shows artefacts from the local Neolitic period up to the the Phoenician period. These exhibits include vary from starues, clay utensils to tools , jewellery to carved slabs taken from pre-historic temples . Modern display boards, models, videos and audio guides help the visitor get more knowledge of our ancient history in an easy way. The building itself it's fine example of Baroque architectecture since it was the Auberge De Provençe built by the Knights Of St John, which us something that anyone who has interest in history and art would surely appreciate. Like most of the sites managed by the agency Heritage Malta it hosts a souvenir shop at the main entrance where one can buy themed tshirts with cool designs, small decorations and a good range of books . Visiting the musuem and getting deep in details of the exhibits will take about two hours.