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ESKİŞEHİR
MUSEUMS
First started as a storage - museum in 1945
at Alaaddin Mosque with pieces collected
from the region. It was moved to the complex
of Kurşunlu Mosque in 1966 and to its present
premises in the Akarbaşı section of the
city in1974. Its collection is displayed
in a chronological order in the three exhibition
halls of the museum and its garden
In the first hall of the museum animal and
plant fossils from archaic ages, and items
which belong to the Neolithic, Chalcolithic,
Old Bronze, Hittite and Phrygian Periods
are displayed.
The findings from the Demircihöyük tumulus
excavations are also exhibited in this section.
In the second hall Hellenistic, Roman and
Byzantine Period
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items and coins from
the antiqity and Islamic periods are
shown.Findings from Kocakızlar Tumulus
at district of Alpu and from the Pessinus
excavations at the Ballıhisar Village
of Sivrihisar District are displayed
in seperate groups.
Third hall is reserved for stone works
and contains marble statuettes used
as offerings from Roman and Byzantine
Periods, statues, tombs, Roman era
floor mosaics from Şarhöyük (Dorylaeum)
and findings of Babadat excavations.
Open exibition in the garden has marble
statues,altar stones,sarcophaguses
, baked earth and millstone jars,
and various architectural pieces.
There are 4252 archeological and 3901
ethnographic pieces, and 6437 coins
totaling to an inventory of 14.590
items.
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