Silifke Museum
Silifke Museum is a museum located in Silifke district of Mersin province and the oldest part is dated to 2700 BC. The museum, which houses 20,677 works, is the sister museum of the Haßloch Museum in Germany. The first museum activities in Silifke date back to 1939. Artifacts found in Silifke and its surrounding regions were first collected in 1939 at Cumhuriyet Primary School. In 1958, a part of the same school started to be used as a warehouse and a museum. In 1973, the construction of a museum where the works will be exhibited started and the museum was opened on 2 August 1973. Artifacts from the Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age and Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods are exhibited in the museum. Artifacts such as relics, statues, sarcophagi and amphorae belonging to the Archaic, Roman and Byzantine periods are exhibited in the stone works hall of the museum. In the coin and jewelry hall, there are coins of Macedonian, Roman, Byzantine, Egyptian, Pergamon and Ottoman rulers, including Alexander the Great and Justinian I, and various jewelry. Hittite hieroglyphic stamps and cylinder seals, Mycenaean and Cyprus vessels, and various candlesticks, vessels, pots, reliquary and statuettes found in the Kelenderis excavations in the archaeological artifacts hall, where artifacts from the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods are found. is exhibited. In the last hall, in the ethnographic artifacts hall, there are Ottoman period folkloric clothes and materials.
