Karadeniz Ereğli Museum
Black Sea Ereğli Museum, also known as Halil Pasha Mansion, was built by the Sultan II in the late 19th century. It was built by Halil Pasha Karamahmutoğlu during the reign of Abdülhamit. Located on Bozhane Yalı Caddesi, the mansion was built on the foundation of an old church and antique spoli materials collected from Roman buildings were used as chapels and for façade decorations. The mansion, which was used as a Secondary School and Girls' Vocational High School for a certain period, remained unclaimed for a long time and was allocated to the Ministry of Culture in 1989. After the restoration work was completed, it was opened as a museum in 1998. On the ground floor of the museum; Marble grave splints, figured marble column heads, glass vessels, jewelry, metal works, oil lamps and archaeological artifacts from the Hellenic, Roman and Byzantine periods, collected from Ereğli and its surroundings. On the first floor of the museum; terracotta amphorae, Lydian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Abbasid, Umayyad, Sassanid, Artuqid, Seljuk and Ottoman coins are on display. On the second floor of the museum; Men's and women's clothes, local elpek fabric and yarn, weaving tools, weavings such as handkerchiefs, bundles and covers, weapons, seals, rosaries, watches, kitchen utensils, measuring and weighing instruments, and local ethnographic artifacts are exhibited. On the third floor of the museum; There is a living room, a guest room, a day room and a bedroom, arranged in accordance with the Ottoman period. Finally, in the garden of the museum; There are column capitals, column bodies and bases, architectural pieces, sarcophagi, and the mausoleum of Krispos, a pantomime artist, from the Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman periods. In the museum; A total of 7,484 artifacts are on display, including 2,202 archaeological artifacts, 4,695 coins, and 587 ethnographic artifacts.
