Kahramanmaraş Archaeology Museum

Museum entrance

Sphinx

Kahramanmaraş Archaeology Museum is a museum in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey

The museum is on Azerbeycan Boulevard in Kahramanmaraş.^[1] It is at 37°34′26″N 36°55′34″E / 37.57389°N 36.92611°E / 37.57389; 36.92611

History

According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, even in the Medieval Age during the Dulkadir Beylik there was a primitive museum of steles in the Kahramanmaraş Castle ^[2] During the Republican Age the first museum was established in 1947. In 1961 the museum was transferred to the castle and in 1975 to its present building.

Exhibited items

The items in the museum are from paleolithic, neolithic, chalcolithic, bronze, iron, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine Ages. The items are exhibited in seven specialized halls; a skeleton of an Anatolian elephant (now excint from Anatolia), Direkli excavations, Domuztepe excavations, Hittite items, mosaics, stone tools, chronological archaeology.^[2]

References

External links

Vitual tour

Museums in Turkey

Aegean Region

Black Sea Region

Amasra Museum Amasya Museum Baksı Museum Bolu Museum Çorum Archaeological Museum Giresun Museum Hagia Sophia, Trabzon Karabük Kardemir Iron-Steel Museum Karadeniz Ereğli Museum Kastamonu Ethnography Museum Ordu Ethnographical Museum Sinop Fortress Prison Sinop Archaeological Museum Söğüt Ertuğrul Gazi Museum Rize Atatürk Museum Tokat Museum Trabzon Museum

Central Anatolia Region

Eastern Anatolia

Elazığ Archaeology and Ethnography Museum Ali Demirsoy Natural History Museum Kars Museum Malatya Museum

Marmara Region

For museums in İstanbul see Museums in Istanbul

Mediterranean Region

Southeastern Anatolia Region

Adıyaman Archaeological Museum Ahmet Arif Literature Museum Library Diyarbakır Archaeological Museum Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology Kilis Museum Mardin Museum Şanlıurfa Archaeology and Mosaic Museum

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