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ÖDEMİŞ
MUSEUM
The idea of establishing a museum at Ödemiş,
which is located on a fertile valley lying
among the mountains Bozdağlar in the north
and Aydın in the south and irrigated with
Küçük Menderes river, first emerged in 1974.
The first concrete step towards that end
was taken when during the 1975 - 1976 period
Mutahhar Başoğlu, a collector himself, donated
two plots of land totalling 2772 meter square
to the Treasury, to be used for a museum
building.
This land was allocated to the General Directorate
of Ancient Works and Museums of the Ministry
of Culture and Tourism on 4.1.1977 by the
Ministry of Finance. The General Directorate
started the construction of the museum within
the same year and it was completed in 1983.
Before Ödemiş Museum came into being, the
items from the area were being kept and
cared for at İzmir Archeology Museum and
the Tire Museum.
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They were
later transfered back from both
museums. In order to achive
chronological unity, the missing
and needed archeological and
ethnographic items and coin
samples were selected from various
museums and transferred to the
Ödemiş Museum.
The museum, which is designed
in a tent form, has a basement
and only one floor above it,
and consists of a single hall.
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In the building
which was originally conceived
as an ethnographical museum,
archeological items from the
environs are also displayed
in addition to ethnographic
material. The displays of the
archeological section are mostly
from Old Bronze Age (3000 B.C)
and Archaic (700 - 480 B.C)
Classic (480 330 B.C), Hellenistic
(330 - 30 B.C), Roman (30 B.C
- 395) and Byzantine (395 -1453)
periods. There are ceramics,
idols, blades and axes, oil
lamps, bronze pieces, glass
pieces, ornaments, baked earth
statuettes, and marble statuettes.
There are also a total of 2545
coins in the archeological section
from the Hellenistic, Roman,
Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman
periods. The ethnography section
contains various weapons, copper
and silver items, glass pieces,
ornaments, embroderies, and
costume samples, mostly belonging
to the Ottoman period. There
are also examples of handicrafts
from the Republican period of
Turkey.
There is a total of 4458 items
at the Ödemiş Museum. A group
of archeological and ethnographic
material was donated by the
collector Muhtar Başoğlu, some
were
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purchased
and other confiscated
items.
Museum Tel: (+ 90
- 232) 545 11 84
Address:Odemis
Open hours to visit:
08.30 - 12.00 / 13.00
- 17.00
Open days to visit:
Everyday except Monday
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