The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara is one of the world’s leading museums with its unique collections. Anatolian Archeology in the museum is exhibited in chronological order in these historical places of the Ottoman period starting from the Paleolithic Age to the present.
The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, which has achieved such success as being the Museum of the Year in Europe in 1997, is located in the district called Atpazarı, on the south-east coast of Ankara Castle, in two Ottoman structures arranged with new functions. One of these buildings is Mahmut Pasha Bedesten and the other is Kurşunlu Han.
The first museum in Ankara was founded by Culture Director Mubarak Galip Bey in 1921 on the bastion named Akkale. With the suggestion of Atatürk, the idea of establishing an de Eti Museum de in the center was started and the Hittite works in other regions were sent to Ankara and a museum building with large spaces was deemed necessary.
Mahmut Pasha Bedesten, who was presumed to be built by Mahmut Pasha, one of the chief viziers of Ottoman Period between 1464 and 1471, but still in the early years of the Republic and the Kurşunlu Han, which was estimated to have been built at that time, was restored and used as a museum building. continuously expanded.
The museum structure took its final shape in 1968. The collections in this magnificent museum; Paleolithic Age, Neolithic (New / Polished Stone) Age, Chalcolithic (Copper-Stone) Age, Old Bronze Age, Assyrian Trade Colonies Age, Old Hittite and Hittite Imperial Age, Phrygian Kingdom, Late Hittite Kingdom, Urartian Kingdom, Lydian Period, Anatolian Civilizations from 1200s to present, classified as Ankara for ages.
The museum, which can be visited every business day of the week, can be visited for 30 Türkish Lira (USD5)
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