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UŞAK
MUSEUMS
Until the year
1970, its duty was
being a civil servant
of the museum in
the structure of
Directorate of National
Education. At that
time, there was
no museum buildings
in Uşak. Services
were being carried
out at the building
of Public Education
and the collected
works were being
kept here. In 1966,
an idea was suggested
to build a museum
in our province;
the museum area
was nationalized
in the same year
and the construction
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of
the building was
started in 1967
and completed in
1969. In 1970, the
exhibition and arrangement
of the building
was completed and
on May 23rd, 1970,
it was opened to
service as the Museum
Directorate of Uşak.
The sculptures belonging
to the Old Bronze
Period, the beak
- mouthed ewers
and stone - made
axes are being exhibited
in a showcase in
the exhibition hall.
The works in the
other showcases
are the earthenware
pots and glass -
made works, which
have both remained
from the Hellenistic
and Roman Periods.
The works, which
are open - exhibited
in the exhibition
hall, are generally
the grave stels,
vow stels and atonement
inscriptions belonging
to the Roman Period.
Nevertheless, the
sculptures brought
from the ruin place
names as Blaundus
are also in the
same area. In the
other showcase of
the hall, gold jewelry,
diadems, glass pots,
coins belonging
to every period,
which are either
confiscated
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or
provided by the
citizens and which
are provided from
rescue excavations
performed by Uşak
Museum are located.
In the remaining part
of the exhibition
hall, which is approximately
half of the hall,
the Lydian treasures,
called as "Karun
Treasure", which
were smuggled to the
United States from
the surroundings of
Uşak in the 2nd half
of 1960s and which
were brought back
to our country in
1993 as the result
of the case brought
by Ministry of culture,
are exhibited.
In the first showcase,
silver works collected
from İkiztepe tumulus
in 1966; in the second
showcase golden works
abducted from Toptepe
tumulus in 1965 and
in the third showcase
the Lydian works provided
from the excavation
performed by Uşak
Museum in Basmacı
tumulus are exhibited.
Besides these works,
the klines in the
grave rooms, volutes
and grave doors are
exhibited in open
area.
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