Ödemiş Museum is a museum in

Ödemiş Ödemiş is a district of İzmir Province of Turkey, as well as the name of its central town (urban population 75,577 as of 2012), located 113 km southeast of the city of İzmir. About 4 km north of Ödemiş town are the ruins of Hypa ...

ilçe (district) of

İzmir Province İzmir Province ( tr, İzmir ili) is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey in western Anatolia, situated along the Aegean coast. Its capital is the city of İzmir, which is in itself composed of the province's central 11 distri ...

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. It is on Turkish state highway 310 situated slightly to the east of the town centre.

History

The building land was donated by a private collector named Mutahhar Başoğlu in 1976, and the museum was opened in 1983. The items displayed in the museum were previously archived at the Tire and

İzmir Archaeology Museum İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...

s. In addition, Başoğlu donated archaeological and ethnographic material from his personal collection.

The building and the exhibition

The museum is a tent shaped building with a basement and the ground floor. There is only one hall for the exhibitions. Although the majority of the items are ethnographic in nature there are also archaeological items from the late Bronze Age, classical age and the

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age. Among these are ceramics, cult figures, oil lamps, cutters, axes, ornaments, earthenware objects, figurines, sculptures, bronze and glass objects. In the ethnography section there are objects from the

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such as copper and silver objects, weapons, clothes and embroidery. There are also 2545 coins from various ages. The total number of exhibits is 4458.Ödemiş Museum page
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References

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