Malatya Museum

Malatya'daki arkeolojik kazılarda çıkarılan birçok eser burada sergileniyor. Malatya son yıllarda birçok alanda müze kazanmış bulunuyor. Sizlere tavsiyem Malatya'daki üç dört gün kon kayıp diğer müzeleri ve zenginliklerini tanımanız...

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Since Malatya has abundant and rich resources in terms of archaeological and ethnographic works, a museum building has been needed. The museum, taken into service in 1969 is a temporary building was moved in 1979 to its new place near Kernek Park, whose construction was started in 1975. Information Relating to the Works in the Museum The number of the works re - arranged and taken into exhibition in the museum is 15.518. In the museum, the fossils found in especially the sand mines or sand rocks in Malatya region, Neolithic, Calcolithic, Bronze Period finds; Hittite, Urartu, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman Period works are exhibited. In the areas under Karakaya Dam Lake in the provincial borders of Malatya, some of the works obtained from Pirot, Caferhöyük, Köşkerbaba, İmamoğlu and Değirmentepe Tumulus, Arslantepe Tumulus are given hereunder: Neolithic small sculptures (8000 BC); obsidian knives, sickles, arrow ends, cutters and perforators; swords and spear ends (3200 - 3000 AD); human grave (4000 AD); seal prints (3200 - 3000); rythons (1200 - 1700 BC), sculptures and rock inscriptions.

Nice displays of nearby archaeological sites, mostly Arslantepe but also a few others. Not a lot to see but nicely laid out and plenty of information, in English too. Friendly guards. Some of the major finds from Arslantepe have been taken to Ankara.

Small but interesting. A decent collection display of items from Arslantepe and other nearby digs.

Great pieces but exhibition standards need to change to modern day museum levels

Unfortunately, there's not a huge amount to see, but there are the least interesting of the oldest known swords in the world. The best from the find are in Ankara. There's a few other interesting bits and bobs but probably the least of the museum's I've been to in the last month in Turkey.