Sivas Archaeological Museum

The Sivas Archaeological Museum is located in the Turkish provincial capital Sivas in the Rahmi Günay Caddesi in the Yüceyurt district. It shows found objects from the prehistoric to the Hittite and Roman times to the Ottoman era. These include pieces from the localities such as Kayalıpınar and Kuşaklı .

history

In 1922 the need for a collection of archaeological finds in the city was first identified. Some rooms in a university building were initially used as a museum. After the rooms no longer met the space requirements, the collection was first relocated to the Gök Medrese in 1927 and then to the Buriciye Medrese in 1968. In 1983 the collection moved to the university building where the Sivas Congress had taken place in 1919, which also served as the Congress Museum. In the 2000s, the museum finally moved into the building of the former art school, which was built between 1896 and 1899 under the then provincial governor Resit Akif Pascha. The ethnographic collection remained in the congress museum. The current museum opened in 2009.

exhibition

The most famous exhibits in the museum come from the Hittite period. These include the steles by Kayalıpınar, Altınyayla , İspekçür and Gemerek as well as a gold signet ring with hieroglyphics from the area around Kangal , which the museum bought. A pair of bull rhyta from Altınyayla, beer-making equipment from Kuşaklı, lion sculptures and numerous other ceramic finds from this period are also worth mentioning . The Roman period is also represented by ceramics, glassware and stone sculptures. Also of note is a large mosaic that was excavated in the village of Tepecik near Gürün . The Ottoman era is mainly represented by grave steles and a bust of Osman Gazi . According to the museum archaeologist Adem Bedir, the latter is the only sculpture of this kind that was created in the Ottoman era.

In the outdoor area of the museum, stone artefacts from all eras can be seen, some decorated wooden doors from the Islamic period and a modeled grave tumulus with dromos and burial chamber.

The museum has a total of 12,500 objects, the annual number of visitors is 30,000.