Uşak Museumvisitor guide.

Under the National Education Directorate, it served as a Museum Office until 1970. In this period, Uşak did not yet possess a dedicated museum building; operations continued within the Public Education building where collected antiquities were preserved. In 1966, the idea of creating a museum in our province was proposed, the museum grounds were expropriated the same year, construction commenced in 1967 was completed in 1969, and following exhibition arrangements in 1970, it opened to the public on May 23, 1970, as Uşak Museum Directorate. In the exhibition hall, Early Bronze Age idols, beaked pitchers, and stone axes are displayed in one vitrine. Other vitrines display Hellenistic and Roman pottery and glassware. Openly displayed artifacts in the gallery are predominantly Roman funerary stelae, votive stelae, and confession inscriptions. Statues brought from the Blaundus archaeological site stand in the same area. Another vitrine showcases gold jewelry, diadems, and glass vessels recovered from rescue excavations by Uşak Museum, alongside coins from all periods confiscated or submitted by citizens. Nearly half of the gallery displays the renowned Lydian treasures known as the 'Karun Treasure' (Croesus Treasure), smuggled from near Uşak to the United States in the late 1960s and repatriated to our country in 1993 following a lawsuit won by the Ministry of Culture. The first large vitrine displays silver items smuggled in 1966 from İkiztepe tumulus; the second vitrine displays gold masterpieces smuggled in 1965 from Toptepe tumulus; the third vitrine displays Lydian finds from Basmacı tumulus excavated by Uşak Museum. Klinai, volutes, and stone tomb doors from tumulus burial chambers are displayed in the open hall. DOWNLOAD MUSEUM BROCHURE NEARBY MUSEUMS UŞAK ATATÜRK AND ETHNOGRAPHY MUSEUM UŞAK BLAUNDUS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE