Gümüşhane Museumvisitor guide.

Gümüşhane Museum was founded by expropriating two adjacent mansions belonging to Erol Karabiber and İbrahim Ömürdağ, whose construction date goes back to 1920, in 1998, and restoring them between 2004 and 2006. Located roughly 1 km north of the city center, the museum building has three floors including the attic. In its garden, stone artifacts belonging to various periods from ancient settlements within Gümüşhane province such as Satala Ancient City and Süleymaniye Neighborhood are exhibited. These artifacts consist of sarcophagi, columns, column capitals, grave stelae, Islamic tombstones, inscribed and relief stelae, and diverse architectural elements. In the museum halls, the display consists of 3 sections: 1- Archaeology Section 2- Numismatic Section 3- Ethnographic Artifacts Section. In the archaeology section, it is possible to see the finest examples of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman periods. These include hand axes, cutting and piercing tools, spindle whorls, terracotta ceramic specimens, and oil lamps. In the coin section, gold, silver, copper, and bronze coins belonging to various eras such as Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman are exhibited. The ethnography section showcases products of the region's rich folk culture. Woven examples such as carpets and rugs, local costumes, embroidered headscarves, tepelik, belts, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and rings of silver jewelry, cigarette holders and cases, copper kitchen vessels like bowls, dishes, ewers, cauldrons, and large trays, wooden objects such as mortars, coffee grinders, coffee coolers, and clogs, and weapons such as swords, daggers, flintlock rifles, and pistols are displayed. Besides 1,191 artifacts illustrating Gümüşhane family life, no admission fee is charged to visitors.