Paleontological and Paleobotanical Museum (Nostimo)

The Paleontological and Paleobotanical Museum (Greek: Μουσείο Παλαιοντολογίας και Παλαιοβοτανικής Νόστιμου) at Nostimo is an exhibition of fossils in a village in Western Macedonia, Greece.

A relatively spacious room inside the school has on display fossils of marine invertebrates, fish, and mammals, as well as some ancient artifacts.

The tree trunks, 5–10 m long and 40–80 cm in diameter, come from the Nostimo Petrified Forest, which consists chiefly of tropical and subtropical plants.

The forest grew in deltaic alluvial deposits of the prehistoric Tethys Ocean, which washed the wider area of Kastoria.

The vertebrate fossils include a jaw and teeth of a shark that was 20–25 m long, and a Late Pliocene (3.5 million years old) tooth of an Anancus arvenensis, a mastodon, an ancient relative of the elephant, which has been recognised here for the first time in the wider area of Western Macedonia.

Outside view of the museum
Nostimo village