Muğla_Museum

Muğla Museum

Muğla Museum

Museum in Muğla, Turkey

Muğla Museum is a museum in Muğla, Turkey. It is a general purpose museum combining natural history, archaeology and ethnography. The museum building, which is located on Müştak Bey street,[1] is the former prison of Muğla city. The building was restored and opened as a museum in 1994. [2]

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One section of the museum exhibits the fossils of animals that lived 5-9 million years ago (i.e., Turolian period) from Kaklıcatepe, a hill close to Muğla. Another section focuses on archaeology; finds from excavations in Stratonicea excavations are exhibited in this area. There is also a skeleton of a gladiator.[3] In ethnography section clothes and everyday tools from Muğla area are exhibited.[2] There are 5460 items in the museum.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Cultural Property page. www.kulturvarliklari.gov.tr. (in Turkish)
  2. [2]
    Muğla Culture Tourism page. dosim.kulturturizm.gov.tr. (in Turkish)
  3. [3]
    Milliyet newspaper. blog.milliyet.com.tr. (in Turkish)
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