The Museo de Prehistoria e Arqueoloxía de Vilalba, after ten years sited in its previous seat, opens the actual building in the summer of 2002. It has now 675 m² built; permanent exhibition surface is of 155 m², while that the  destined one to temporary exhibitions occupies 25 m², exhibitions and reception of visitors occupe a third of the built surface, very in agreement with ideal modules of occupation of internal services and visitors' areas.

Thematic is fitted to the chronological space that includes Prehistory and Ancient History, it means, since Palaeolithic until Roman Time. Archaeological materials that welcomes come, mainly, of particular deposits and the discoveries made in the course of archaeological excavations promoted by the Museum and other institutions.

In the permanent exhibition the best and more complete collection of the Flacked Stone Age of the peninsular northwest appears: materials coming from lower Palaeolithic, upper Palaeolithic, Epipalaeolithic and Mesolihic. Emphasizing the rest of the older human occupation of Galicia and the first object of art of our land.

 Of the Polished Stone Age, materials of different neolithic sites and megalithic contexts are exposed: ceramics and flacked and polished stone tools; showing rest of the little sites known of the time. Of the Bronze Age metallic and ceramic materials are exhibited, along with an engraving: petroglifo. The Iron Age, represented by the Castrexo Phenomenon, is customized of zoological and botanical rest that served as food of these populations, along with ceramics and other lithics and metallic elements. Of the Roman Time are shown pottery, glass, coins, rest of amphoras, and ceramic materials of building.

The philosophy of the assembly consists of offering to the visitor a route by Prehistory and Ancient History; joining the explanations of the material rest contained in the display cabinets, with the presentation of the necessary informations to be able to understand them, not separately, but within the social and economic mechanisms of the people who produced them, along with interactive modules and scale models.

 The presence of an only and closed route is motived by the Museum special thematic; the blocks are chronologically put in order, starting by the older, until the more recent. The main pillar of History is chronology, historical phenomenons can not be explained without the dates in that they was produced, thus, Museum contents order follows this line.

In each block an introduction panel with an unique scheme exists to be able to warm, in a visual way, the basic differences between the different periods. The permanent exhibition concludes with a synthesis, where a summary of the contents is offered, along with the possibility of covering a form to diagnose the understanding level and to formulate those doubts or proposals that are considered opportune.

 The information consists of three levels, basic one corresponds to the Hand-Guide that is provided to the entrance, complemented with the general pictures. The mean level corresponds to the introduction panels of each exhibition block, the hand information that exists near each one of them, to the graphic section of the panels and the Brief Guide. Whereas the high level groups previous levels both along with all the exposed texts and panels and with the Catalogue-Guide. A Visits-Manual exists, in bilingual edition, and the visitors can use to a more comfortable visit.

 The permanent exhibition complements its information with temporary exhibitions and a panel of quarterly subjects that it is changing periodically.