The MAHE is the Museum of Archeology and History of the city of Elche, housed in a modern building. The origin of the collection is the Ibarra collection itself. The local scholarship, the seed of the current museum, is also dedicated to Pere Ibarra Ruiz (Elx, 1858 - 1934), Spanish archaeologist, painter and historian. Ibarra will also have the merit of carrying out the first archaeological study. To date, the museum includes a vast collection of antiquities that includes books and documents from history and archeology. The collection also contains a large number of coins, from the Iberian-Roman period, and a large number of objects of various kinds and periods. The MAHE also exhibits pieces of archaeological work. Most of the finds included here come from the excavations of La Alcúdia.

Among the pieces in the collection are the sculpture and ceramics of the Iberian period, coming from funerary monuments. More specifically, among the works worthy of note are the Aphrodite in white marble (Venus of Ilici) and a representation of sleeping Eros found in the villa of Algorós and both dating back to the I-II century.