One of the most impressive exhibits of the museum is the huge head of the Sun, the god of Rhodes, a representative example of Rhodian Baroque, and the delicately elegant statuette of the Bathing Aphrodite.

Mycenaean jewelry, vessels and small objects from Ialysos and Kamiros, dating from the Geometric to the Classical period (9th – 4th century BC), alongside sculptures of the Classical and Hellenistic periods and Rhodian coins complete the picture. The exhibition aims at highlighting and deepening the understanding of the ancient history of Rhodes.

Also on display are mosaic floors from the Early Christian basilica of Arkasa on Karpathos, while in the large upstairs hall visitors can admire the Knights’ relief funerary stelae, chivalric emblems and the Roman sarcophagus Grand Master Cornillan was buried in.