[1] The museum itself is housed in the mansion of the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, formally known as Iliou Melathron (Greek: Ιλίου Μέλαθρον, "Palace of Ilion").

[2] The Iliou Melathron was granted in order to house the collection in 1984, and after a major renovation it finally opened in 1998.

As a result, the rooms are decorated with mosaics and murals depicting either themes from the Trojan War or Greek mottos.

After the building was chosen to house the Numismatic Museum, it underwent a major renovation under which the floor mosaics and the murals were restored.

[5] The collection of the museum contains 600,000 objects, mainly coins but also medals, standard masses, dies, stamps and others, from the 14th century BC until modern times.