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ARCHEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY MUSEUM
Ethnography Section: at the entrance, on the left side, there is a collection consisting of silver works with sultan's signature and other house tools, donated by a person from Edirne and just beside it, the Gördes - type carpet prayer rug laid on the niche of Selimiye Mosque and Şarköy kilims belonging to XIXth century are located. Again in the first of the three showcases in the same line, the coins belonging to

the Ottoman sultans' periods, in the second showcase the treasures found during the base excavations, and in the third showcase the coins caught at the customs doors while being illegally transferred to other countries and brought to the museum are exhibited.
One of the most important parts of the hall is the part reflecting the ritual circumcision and bride rooms. The ritual circumcision bed is prepared by putting 22 bindallı side by side and a valuable bed set worked on satin belonging to the XVIIIth century is laid on them.
The "Edirnekari" large board door belonging to the end of XVIIth century, which is on the wall of the ritual circumcision and bride room, is one the most beautiful samples of its period.

In the showcases in the middle of the inner hall, the style cover used in the palace, spoons made of the covers of sea turtles, long - spouted ewers, water pipe sets made of crystal and the clothes of XIXth century men and women are exhibited. The sitting room in the same hall and the money drawers, writing drawers and chests made with Edirnekari technique are interesting. Before passing to the hand works section, in the showcases on the left and right sides, embroidered

handkerchiefs having different motifs, the blanket, which was used by Atatürk during his visit to Edirne and the map he used during the Balkan War are exhibited.
In the hand works part, there is a village kitchen, carpet, kilim and rush mat weaving looms, tools used in shoe manufacture, agricultural tools and instruments used in farming and a phaeton are located.
Archeology Section: At the entrance, on the right side, the photograph panel showing the first tumulus excavations made in the region between the years 1936 - 1939 upon the order of Atatürk is located and on the left side, a map showing the archaic residence locations of Thrace.
The stone works exhibited along the wall are in three groups:
1- inscriptions
2- architectural parts
3- stells
The showcase, in which women busts made of cooked soil is interesting in terms of showing the hair styles of women from the Archaic Period until today. Works belonging to various periods, which were caught while being sent abroad, are exhibited in the contraband works showcase.
In the showcase belonging to Thrace cult documents, cavalry stells depicting the Thracean cavalry, who were very skillful in war art and horsemanship and who were deified after their death, are exhibited.
Along the wall, sculptures of Roman period are placed.
In four fossil showcases, fossil parts belonging to various animals that have been obtained in the sand - gravel mines and coal mines in the region and that are dated to periods starting from one million year before today and going back to 30 - 35 million years are exhibited.
Among the prehistoric works belonging to Odrisia, which is the first city residence of Odrisses, which is a big Trak clan, at 5 km northwestern of Edirne, stone axes, handmade, rough - dough notch - ornamented earthenware pot parts, hand mill are exhibited in the horizontal showcase in the middle of the hall.
The grave gifts obtained in the Hacılar Dolmen, Arpalık Dolmen and Taşlıca Bayır Tumulus excavations are exhibited in the showcases called with their names. In the middle, in one of the two horizontal showcases, the Thracean coins belonging to Hellenistic kings are exhibited while in the other showcase the coins belonging to the rulers period are located. In the two vertical showcases, Roman and Byzantine coins are exhibited in chronological order.
In the museum garden, Ionian, Aiol, Korinth, Byzantine column heads and various architectural parts are exhibited. Besides these, the altar having an Eros relief on it, which belongs to the Roman period and the dolmens and menhirs brought from Lalapaşa Hacılar Village are interesting works.

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