The Archaeological Park of Neapolis was built between 1952 and 1955, it contains important monuments: the Roman Amphitheatre, the Altar of Hiero II, the Cordari cave, the Norman Church of San Nicolò, the Greek Theatre, the Cave of Nymphaeum, the latomy of Paradise (Ear of Dionysius, Sican necropolis, Roman and Byzantine) and the Romanesque Church of San Nicolò.

Among the largest European museums in terms of exhibition space, it is unique in its kind, because it contains the results of research in the territory from the end of the 18th century onwards. On the ground floor, the Medallion with its Numismatics Collections. On the first floor there is the exhibition path relating to the prehistory and protohistory of Eastern Sicily (sector A), the one dedicated to the Greek colonies of eastern Sicily (sector B1), the sector dedicated in particular to Greek Syracuse, (sector B), the one in which are exhibited the finds from the sub-colonies of Syracuse, from the Hellenized Indigenous centers, from the Greek colonies of Gela and Agrigento (sector C). The second floor houses the exhibition path related to Syracuse in the Hellenistic and Roman periods and the presentation of the Catacombs of St. John with the sarcophagus of Adelphia at the center of the path, whose discovery, together with that of the Venus Landolina constitutes one of the moments for the birth of a Museum in Syracuse