Çankırı Museum
The Museum initiated its activities in 1972 with the exhibition of archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, and continued to serve in different buildings and locations over time. Today, the museum, which hosts visitors in the renovated old Government House, exhibits artifacts of the Bronze Age, Hittite, Phrygian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman Periods.
During scientific excavations carried out in late Miocene fossil beds by the museum in cooperation with the Faculty of Language and History and Geography, in the University of Ankara since 1997, there were found 7-8 million years old fossils of the ancestors of elephants, rhinoceros, sheep, goats, pigs, giraffes, deer, and other primates. All finds are exhibited in the “Natural History” section.
The first hominoid fossils, which are rarely encountered in excavations, were excavated from this locality. Excavations made in 2006 revealed the skull of the saber-toothed tiger. The fossils extracted from the excavations are exhibited in the Fossil Section established in a part of the Çankırı Museum.
