where the finds are now

118 museums

Archaeology, mosaic and site museums across 68 provinces. The list comes from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s museum pages and has not yet been checked against an official list, so opening hours and names may have changed.

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Adana 2

Archaeology

Adana Archaeology Museum (Adana Museum Complex)

Roman sarcophagi, Misis mosaic

Mosaic

Misis Mosaic Museum

Noah's Ark mosaic

Adıyaman 1

Archaeology

Adıyaman Museum

Commagene finds

Treasures here: Kilisik sculpture

Afyonkarahisar 1

Archaeology

Afyonkarahisar Museum

Roman marble statuary

Aksaray 1

Archaeology

Aksaray Museum

Aşıklı Höyük finds, mummies

Amasya 1

Archaeology

Amasya Archaeology Museum

Teshub statuette, mummies

Ankara 4

Archaeology (private)

Erimtan Archaeology and Arts Museum

Anatolian seals, Urartian objects

Archaeology (site museum)

Gordion Museum

Phrygian finds, Midas Mound

Archaeology

Museum of Anatolian Civilizations

Çatalhöyük, Hittite, Phrygian, Urartian collections

Treasures here: Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük; Çatalhöyük wall painting ('town plan'); Alacahöyük bronze standards (sun discs and stags); Kültepe (Kanesh) merchant tablets; İnandık vase; Hurri and Şerri bull vessels; Hattusa Bronze Tablet (treaty with Tarhuntassa); King's Gate warrior god relief; Hittite cuneiform tablet archive (Boğazköy tablets); Carchemish orthostats; Midas Mound (Tumulus MM) furniture and bronzes

Archaeology (site museum)

Roman Baths of Ankara (open-air museum)

Roman bath complex

Antalya 6

Archaeology

Alanya Museum

Bronze Herakles

Archaeology

Antalya Museum

Perge statues, Weary Herakles

Treasures here: Elmalı Treasure; Weary Herakles; Herakles Sarcophagus (Labours of Herakles)

Archaeology

Elmalı Museum

Elmalı treasure

Archaeology

Kaş Museum

Archaeology

Lycian Civilizations Museum (Andriake)

Lycian finds in Granarium

Archaeology (site museum)

Side Museum

Roman statuary

Artvin 1

Archaeology & ethnography

Artvin Museum

Aydın 3

Archaeology (site museum)

Aphrodisias Museum

Sebasteion reliefs, sculpture school

Treasures here: Sebasteion reliefs

Archaeology

Aydın Archaeology Museum

Tralles finds

Archaeology (site museum)

Miletus Museum

Balıkesir 1

Archaeology

Balıkesir Museum

Daskyleion finds

Bartın 1

Archaeology

Amasra Museum

Batman 2

Archaeology

Batman Museum

Hasankeyf finds

Archaeology

Hasankeyf Museum

Rescued finds from Hasankeyf

Bilecik 1

Archaeology

Bilecik Museum

Bitlis 1

Archaeology

Bitlis Ahlat Museum

Urartian & Seljuk finds

Bolu 1

Archaeology

Bolu Museum

Burdur 1

Archaeology

Burdur Museum

Sagalassos & Kibyra statues, Hacılar finds

Bursa 2

Archaeology

Bursa Archaeology Museum

Archaeology & ceramics

İznik Museum

İznik tiles

Çanakkale 2

Archaeology (site museum)

Troy Museum

Polyxena sarcophagus

Treasures here: Troy gold jewellery (Penn Museum group); Polyxena Sarcophagus

Archaeology

Çanakkale Archaeology Museum

Troy finds

Çorum 3

Archaeology (site museum)

Alacahöyük Museum

Archaeology (site museum)

Boğazköy Museum

Hattusa sphinxes, tablets

Treasures here: Hattusa Sphinx Gate sphinx

Archaeology

Çorum Museum

Hittite finds

Treasures here: Hüseyindede vase; Sword of Tudhaliya

Denizli 2

Archaeology (site museum)

Hierapolis Archaeology Museum

Roman sarcophagi and statues

Archaeology

Laodikeia Museum (Denizli)

Diyarbakır 1

Archaeology

Diyarbakır Archaeology Museum

Çayönü finds

Düzce 1

Archaeology

Düzce Konuralp Museum

Prusias ad Hypium finds

Edirne 1

Archaeology

Edirne Museum

Elazığ 1

Archaeology

Elazığ Archaeology and Ethnography Museum

Harput finds

Erzincan 1

Archaeology

Erzincan Museum

Altıntepe finds

Erzurum 1

Archaeology

Erzurum Archaeology Museum

Eskişehir 1

Archaeology

Eskişehir Archaeology Museum

Phrygian finds

Gaziantep 3

Archaeology

Gaziantep Archaeology Museum

Karkemiş finds

Mosaic

Gaziantep Zeugma Mosaic Museum

Gypsy Girl mosaic

Archaeology (site museum)

Yesemek Open-Air Museum

Hittite sculpture workshop

Giresun 1

Archaeology

Giresun Museum

Hakkari 1

Archaeology

Hakkari Museum

Hakkari stelae (Bronze/Iron Age)

Hatay 2

Mosaic & archaeology

Hatay Archaeology Museum

One of the world's largest Roman mosaic collections

Treasures here: Skeleton mosaic ('Be cheerful, enjoy your life'); Antioch mosaics (Oceanus and Tethys and others)

Archaeology & mosaic

Necmi Asfuroğlu Archaeology Museum

Mosaics in situ under hotel

Isparta 2

Archaeology

Isparta Museum

Archaeology

Yalvaç Museum

Antioch of Pisidia finds

İstanbul 6

Mosaic

Great Palace Mosaic Museum

Byzantine Great Palace peristyle floor mosaics

Byzantine monument

Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya)

Byzantine mosaics (mosque since 2020; history museum alongside)

Archaeology

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Alexander Sarcophagus, Kadesh treaty tablet, Siloam inscription

Treasures here: Kadesh Treaty tablet; Hittite cuneiform tablet archive (Boğazköy tablets); Ishtar Gate glazed brick panels; Love Song of Shu-Sin (Istanbul #2461); Code of Ur-Nammu tablet; Nippur tablet collection; Siloam inscription; Gezer calendar; Temple Warning inscription; Tabnit sarcophagus; Alexander Sarcophagus; Sarcophagus of the Mourning Women; Lycian Sarcophagus; Satrap Sarcophagus; Statue of Alexander from Magnesia; Head of Alexander from Pergamon; Serpent Column head fragment; Ephebe of Tralles; Sidamara Sarcophagus; Yenikapı shipwrecks

Byzantine monument

Kariye (Chora)

Palaeologan mosaics and frescoes (mosque since 2024)

Archaeology (private)

Rezan Has Museum

Anatolian finds, Byzantine cisterns

Archaeology & ethnography (private)

Sadberk Hanım Museum

Anatolian archaeology collection

İzmir 7

Archaeology

Bergama Museum

Pergamon finds

Archaeology (site museum)

Ephesus Museum

Artemis statues

Treasures here: Statues of Artemis of Ephesus

Archaeology & ethnography

Tire Museum

Archaeology

Çeşme Museum

Erythrai finds

Archaeology

Ödemiş Museum

Hypaipa finds

Archaeology

İzmir Archaeology Museum

Statuary from Ionian cities

Archaeology & art

İzmir History and Art Museum

Sculpture, coins

Kahramanmaraş 1

Archaeology

Kahramanmaraş Museum

Neo-Hittite stelae

Karaman 1

Archaeology

Karaman Museum

Kars 1

Archaeology

Kars Museum

Ani finds

Kastamonu 1

Archaeology

Kastamonu Archaeology Museum

Kayseri 1

Archaeology

Kayseri Archaeology Museum

Kültepe/Kanesh tablets

Kırklareli 1

Archaeology

Kırklareli Museum

Thracian finds

Kırşehir 2

Archaeology

Kaman-Kalehöyük Archaeology Museum

Finds from Kaman-Kalehöyük excavations

Archaeology

Kırşehir Museum

Kilis 1

Archaeology & mosaic

Kilis Museum

Kocaeli 1

Archaeology

Kocaeli Archaeology Museum

Nicomedia reliefs

Konya 3

Archaeology

Akşehir Museum

Archaeology

Ereğli Museum (Konya)

Archaeology

Konya Archaeology Museum

Herakles sarcophagus, Çatalhöyük finds

Kütahya 1

Archaeology

Kütahya Archaeology Museum

Amazon sarcophagus

Malatya 2

Archaeology (site museum)

Arslantepe Open-Air Museum

Palace complex

Archaeology

Malatya Museum

Arslantepe finds

Manisa 2

Archaeology

Akhisar Museum

Thyateira finds

Archaeology & mosaic

Manisa Museum

Sardis finds, mosaics

Mardin 1

Archaeology

Mardin Museum

Mersin 6

Archaeology

Anamur Museum

Anemurium finds

Archaeology

Mersin Museum

Mosaic

Narlıkuyu Mosaic Museum

Three Graces mosaic

Archaeology

Silifke Museum

Hellenistic coin hoards

Archaeology

Tarsus Museum

Archaeology (private)

Taşucu Amphorae Museum

Amphora collection

Muğla 5

Underwater archaeology

Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology

Uluburun shipwreck, Carian princess

Treasures here: Uluburun shipwreck cargo; Serçe Limanı glass wreck

Archaeology

Fethiye Museum

Letoon trilingual stele

Archaeology

Marmaris Museum

Archaeology

Milas Museum

Carian finds

Archaeology & palaeontology

Muğla Museum

Stratonikeia finds

Nevşehir 4

Archaeology (site museum)

Göreme Open-Air Museum

Rock-cut Byzantine churches and frescoes

Archaeology

Nevşehir Museum

Archaeology (site museum)

Zelve Open-Air Museum

Rock-cut settlement

Archaeology & ethnography

Ürgüp Museum

Niğde 1

Archaeology

Niğde Museum

Mummies, Tyana finds

Ordu 1

Archaeology

Ordu Museum

Osmaniye 1

Archaeology (site museum)

Osmaniye Karatepe-Aslantaş Open-Air Museum

Neo-Hittite reliefs

Sakarya 1

Archaeology

Sakarya Museum

Samsun 1

Archaeology

Samsun Museum

Amisos treasure

Siirt 1

Archaeology

Siirt Museum

Sinop 1

Archaeology

Sinop Archaeology Museum

Greek colony finds

Sivas 1

Archaeology

Sivas Archaeology Museum

Şanlıurfa 2

Mosaic

Haleplibahçe Mosaic Museum

Amazon queens mosaic

Treasures here: Haleplibahçe Amazon queens mosaics

Archaeology

Şanlıurfa Archaeology Museum

Urfa Man, Neolithic finds

Treasures here: Urfa Man (Balıklıgöl statue); Göbekli Tepe 'totem pole'

Tekirdağ 1

Archaeology

Tekirdağ Museum

Thracian chariot

Tokat 1

Archaeology

Tokat Museum

Trabzon 1

Archaeology

Trabzon Museum

Hermes statue

Uşak 1

Archaeology

Uşak Archaeology Museum

Karun (Lydian) treasure

Treasures here: Karun Treasure (Lydian Hoard); Winged seahorse (hippocamp) brooch

Van 1

Archaeology

Van Museum

Urartian metalwork

Treasures here: Urartian bronze belts and cauldrons

Yalova 1

Archaeology

Yalova Museum

Yozgat 1

Archaeology

Yozgat Museum

Kerkenes finds

Zonguldak 1

Archaeology

Ereğli Museum