Troy Museum
The Troy Museum is located at the entrance of the Ancient City of Troy, which is located within the boundaries of Tevfikiye Village in the Central District of Çanakkale and was included in the World Cultural Heritage List by UNESCO in 1998. 3.000 m2 hall and 11.200 m2 closed area. Its construction started in 2013, the works that were stopped in 2015 have been continued since 2017 and it was put into service in October 2018.
The museum visit starts when you go down the ramp. Different layers of Troy in niches in ramp walls; tombstones, large statues, stage reenactments and large photographs. In order to provide guidance to the visitor before the exhibition floors that continue in the circulation band, which is the entrance area of the museum about Troas and its surroundings; archaeological and archaeometric dating methods, terms such as "neolithic, chalcolithic, bronze age, iron age, mound, restoration, conservation" are conveyed through diagrams, drawings, texts and interactive methods.
The finds include stone (marble), statues, sarcophagi, inscriptions, altars, milestones, paleolithic axes and cutters, etc., terracotta ceramics, metal vessels; gold, weapons, coins, bone objects and tools, glass bracelets, ornaments, glasses, perfume bottles, tear bottles, etc. Stone artifacts, sarcophagi, columns, stelae, column capitals, etc., together with the landscape in the garden of the museum. displayed as a whole.
In addition to visual graphic designs, diorama (three-dimensional modeling of the moment or story with the help of light plays), touch screen and animations are also presented in the museum.
All the artifacts in the "Çanakkale Archeology Museum" were moved and as the "Troy Museum"; It was officially opened on 18.03.2019. The Old Building is now closed. “Çanakkale Museum Directorate” provides service at this new address.
