Alanya Archaeological Museum

The Alanya Museum of Archeology was opened in 1967, to display a collection of works dating back to the Bronze Age, and from the Vergian, Lydian and Urartian periods, some of which were brought from the Ankara Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, and the museum is expanding and enriching the excavation collections and bringing more of them in different ways periodically. The museum contains two sections, namely the Department of Archeology and Ethnography; The oldest dated work displayed in the Antiquities Department, which is a stone inscription in the Phoenician language, dates back to the year 625 BC. The most famous exhibits of this museum are the bronze statue of Hercules, which dates back to the second century after Christ, and is displayed in a separate room from the other exhibits, which include Mosaic works, caskets, and collections of coins dating from Antiquity, Classical, Hellenistic, and Byzantine periods. There are also Turkish-Islamic works dating back to the Seljuk and Ottoman eras, and the Ethnography Department presents daily life in Alanya by displaying Bedouin carpets, stone works, carvings, clothing, embroidery samples, weapons, jewelry and handwritings that reflect the folkloric features of the region.