Antalya Museum

Antalya Museum was established in 1922 by teacher Süleyman Fikri Erten to protect the works that were saved from the plunder of the occupation forces that came to the region after the First World War. The museum, which was first located in Alaaddin Mosque in Kaleiçi and later in the Yivli Mosque, was moved to its current building in 1972. The Antalya Museum consists of 14 exhibition halls on an area of ​​30 thousand square meters, and open-air galleries where sculptures and various works are exhibited, and a garden. An important part of the three ancient cultural regions Lycia, Pamphylia and Pisidia, located within the borders of the Antalya Region, which is one of the richest historical corners of the Anatolian lands that have witnessed human history, constitutes the responsibility area of ​​the Antalya Museum. In Antalya, which is a unique open-air museum with its archaeological richness and an international excavation center, scientists from many countries make scientific excavations every year. Many rescue excavations and landscaping works are carried out by the Antalya Museum in the region.