Kahramanmaraş Museumvisitor guide.

The first museum in Kahramanmaraş was founded in 1947 in the city center within a 16th-century building known as the Stone Madrasa on Belediye Street, Ekmekçi Neighborhood. Located in the Mediterranean Region with history reaching back 14,000 years, Kahramanmaraş Province holds an important place in forging Anatolia's cultural richness, having hosted diverse civilizations. Traces of earliest museology in Türkiye are found here during the Seljuk era, while Late Hittite stelae of globally unique importance were exhibited atop Kahramanmaraş Castle under the Dulkadirid Principality. The first museum established in 1947 in the Stone Madrasa moved to Kahramanmaraş Castle in 1961, and relocated to its present museum building in 1975; in May 2012 it was redesigned in accordance with Contemporary Museology through innovative exhibitions, continuing its services at the same premises. Collections spanning Paleolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze, Iron, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods are displayed across 7 galleries: Ancient Elephant Hall, Direkli Cave Excavation and Diorama Hall, Domuztepe Mound Diorama and Excavation Hall, Late Hittite Artifacts Hall, Mosaic Hall, Stone Works Hall, and Chronological Archaeology Hall, accompanied by an open-air Garden Exhibition. DOWNLOAD MUSEUM BROCHURE NEARBY MUSEUMS ELBİSTAN CITY MUSEUM GERMANICIA MOSAIC AREA