Ürgüp Museum
The construction of the Service Building of our Museum Directorate was started in 1969, and it was completed in July 1971 and opened to visitors. Stone terracotta artifacts on the south, east, and west façades of the building and on the entrance stairs, and mammoth tooth fossils dating back to the Neogene-Miocene (approximately 10 million years pre-human) period found within the boundaries of Mustafapaşa Town at the entrance, and mammoth tooth fossils, which are on display in the first section of the exhibition hall, are known to have been found around Acıgöl. Seafood fossils, Mesozoic-3 of Central Anatolia. It is one of the important natural artifacts in terms of proving that it was an inland sea-lake called Neotethys in geological time (231-65 million years). In the Archaeological section of the Exhibition Hall, terracotta handmade ceramics, metal works and glass artifacts belonging to the Old Bronze Age, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods, gold, silver, bronze coins and medals belonging to the Greek, Roman, Seljuk, Principalities, Byzantine and Ottoman Periods in three showcases, In the ethnographic section, weaving, metal, stone, glass, etc. works that reflect the life and culture of Ürgüp and its surroundings are exhibited.
