Elmalı Museumvisitor guide.

Our museum was established as a separate Directorate affiliated with our Ministry's provincial organization by Council of Ministers Decision No. 2011/1655, published and enacted in the Official Gazette No. 27918 on 28.04.2011. Opening to visitors on 13.06.2011, Elmalı and Korkuteli Districts were designated as its area of responsibility. The two-story central-plan Old Government House located on block 194, parcel 1, in İplik Pazarı Neighborhood of Elmalı center, was restored and transformed into the museum building. On the ground floor of the museum building are administrative offices, and in Hall 1 to the left of the entrance, the display across 8 vitrines begins with Late Chalcolithic artifacts from Bağbaşı, continuing with Early Bronze Age finds from Karataş-Semayük. Selected burial and storage vessels from the same eras are exhibited on the same floor. In Hall 3, three pithos graves discovered in the Karataş-Semayük cemetery are displayed in their original positions. To the right of the first floor in Hall 1, finds from Hacımusalar Höyük and Karaçakır excavations are showcased. Other vitrines exhibit finds from Karaburun 1, Kızılbel, and Bayındır tumulus excavations; Hall 3 displays Lycian civic coins and Roman imperial coins, while Hall 5 to the left of the first floor exhibits replicas of the 5th-century BC Elmalı Hoard. Hall 6 displays Roman and Byzantine votive stelae, sarcophagus and sculpture fragments, daily vessels, jewelry, and surgical instruments. Hall 7 exhibits Roman and Byzantine architectural elements found around Elmalı. In Halls 4 and 8 on the first floor, full-scale reconstructions of the Karaburun and Kızılbel burial chambers are presented to visitors with their vivid wall murals. The rear courtyard serves as an open-air lapidary display, exhibiting Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine funerary stelae, column fragments, and architectural elements. The basement serves as artifact storage. DOWNLOAD MUSEUM BROCHURE NEARBY MUSEUMS OLYMPOS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE MYRA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE PERGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE PATARA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE PHASELIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE SIDE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE