Kırşehir Museumvisitor guide.

Initial efforts to establish Kırşehir Museum in our provincial center commenced in 1936. During the Republican era when new museums were being founded, historical artifacts were first gathered within Alaaddin Mosque situated upon Kale Mound, locally referred to as the 'Castle' in Kırşehir. In 1975, an 'ancient monuments commission' was formed by the Kırşehir Governorship to preserve antiquities and create a museum; in 1980, Kırşehir Museum Directorate was established, and the first artifact (coin) was inventoried in 1983. In 1985, collected works began being displayed in a 100 m² space inside the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism building in the city center, and a 20 m² storage facility was created. With archaeological excavations starting in 1986 at Kalehöyük in Çağırkan Town of Kaman District, the museum's development accelerated and the first archaeological find was cataloged into inventory that year. In 1993, artifacts in the museum collection moved to storage at Kırşehir Cultural Center. Following these phases, Kırşehir Museum began service in 1997 in the Fine Arts Gallery, a two-story section with mezzanine inside the Cultural Center of the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism building. In November 2018, it relocated to its current 15,000 m² modern building across three floors including basement. Since exhibition displays are not yet installed, the museum is closed to visits, serving as an administrative base while artifacts are safely preserved in storage depots. Kırşehir Museum is a comprehensive general museum possessing archaeological, ethnographic, and numismatic sections. Its collection comprises approximately 6,000 coins, 1,200 ethnographic objects, and 1,110 archaeological artifacts. NEARBY MUSEUMS KIRŞEHİR KAMAN KALEHÖYÜK ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM KIRŞEHİR MUCUR UNDERGROUND CITY