Mugla Museum

The Muğla Museum is situated in the old prison building that is behind the courthouse. At the end of 1992, as a result of the excavations made in Özlüce Village Kaklıcatepe, many animal and plant fossils were found. In 1994 the museum was opened for visits with the exhibition of these fossils.

The fossils being exhibited in the Muğla Museum belong to the creatures that lived 5 - 9 million years ago. These creatures have lived on a wide area from the Eastern Asia to Spain. The fossils of the creatures of this period have been found in the Tervel Basin of Spain, therefore this period is called Turolian.