Ahlat Museum
The Ahlat Museum, which carries the traces of many civilizations to the present day, was first presented to the visitors in 1971. Since it is the only museum in its vicinity, it serves on a regional basis. The museum, which hosted its visitors until 2014, was insufficient to meet today's needs, and a new museum named Ahlat Museum and Welcome Center was built by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in accordance with the contemporary museology and presented to the public in 2014. Artifacts in the museum; It is exhibited in 4 different areas: Archaeological, Urban Memory, Foyer and Garden. Artifacts from the Chalcolithic Age, Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze/Early Iron Age, Middle Iron Age, Hellenistic Period, Roman Period, Eastern Roman Period, Seljuk Period and Ottoman Period are exhibited in the Archaeological Hall. In the Urban Memory Hall, boards with brief information about the states that ruled in Ahlat and the Ottoman and Turkish Republic; There are information about the region, such as information about the Seljuk Square Cemetery and the Ruins, as well as the wax statue of Sultan Alparslan and the visuals and basic information about the Battle of Manzikert. In the Foyer Area, the history of Ahlat, information and visuals of the first settlement, the Harabeşehir Caves; Ram sarcophagi and information plates from the Akkoyunlu Period; A map showing the location of the Seljuk Square Cemetery Ruins and the museum and a sample of the witness; The words about Ahlat mentioned in Evliya Çelebi's Travel Book; Oghuz stamps board; Panels with quatrains taken from a poem written for Ahlat; cubes and on the ceiling there is a suspended ceiling panel on which the Seljuk Infinity motif is embroidered. In the Garden Display, stone works, epitaphs, architectural pieces, jars and tombstones belonging to the Islamic Period are exhibited.
