ANATOLIAN CIVILIZATION MUSEUM

Anatolian Civilizations Museum in Ankara is winner of the 1997 “European Museum of the Year Award”. The museum has an extensive collection of the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Early Bronze, Assyrian trading colonies, Hittite, Phrygian, Urartian, Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuq and Ottoman periods. And also, there exist exhibits of Karain, Çatalhöyük, Hacılar, Canhasan, Beyce Sultan, Alacahöyük, Kültepe, Acemhöyük, Boğazköy, Pazarlı, Altıntepe, Adilcevaz and Patnos as well as examples of several periods.

Anatolian Civilizations Museum inform us about manner of life, cultures, beliefs, source of  income. For instance; in Çatalhöyük’s exhibits, we can see that people used roof as a door and the importance of goddess is seen as well. Their beliefs have affected their sense of art, we cen see a lot of goddess or god figures. Preponderance of agriculture and stockbreeding in social life have affected as well. The exhibits of gold, silver, glass, marble and bronze works date back as far as the second half of the first millennium BC. The coin collections, with examples ranging from the first minted money to modern times, represent the museum’s rare cultural treasures.

You may see variable and valuable collection, if you interest in ancient history of Anatolian. It is located on the Gözcü Street in Atpazarı neighborhood, southeast of the Ankara Castle.