Kayseri Archaeology Museum is a museum in Kayseri,

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. Kayseri Archeology Museum, which has been serving here for about 50 years, has been moved to the new museum building within the Kayseri Castle and has been opened to visitors since 19 October 2019. In the new museum, there are 14 exhibition halls in chronological order. The works in the exhibition halls date from the Chalcolithic Age to the Late Osmlanlı period. The address now is Cumhuriyet Mahallesi, Kaleiçi Meydan Kümeevler, No: 1, Melikgazi/Kayseri. Kayseri is an old city. The

Kültepe Kültepe ( Turkish: ''ash-hill''), also known as Kanesh or Nesha, is an archaeological site in Kayseri Province, Turkey, inhabited from the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC, in the Early Bronze Age.Kloekhorst, Alwin, (2019)Kanišite Hittite: ...

ruins are about south west of the city. Old museums page
/ref> The old museum was opened on 26 June 1969, the new one in 2019.

Exhibited items

Previous museum

The first hall is reserved for the Kültepe ruins. The origin of the

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n trade post ( karum) or the Hittite city

(Nesa). These are the earliest written materials in Turkey (ca 1900 B.C.), pitchers, vases, stamps, bowls, metallic objects and various reliefs. In the corridor between the two halls the Phrygian ceramics are displayed. The second hall is the hall of the later civilizations such as

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eras. These are ornaments, figurines, marble sculptures, etc. One of the most important items is the

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sarcophagus which was recently found during the construction of a nearby building. There are also some items in the yard.

New museum

There are a total of 13 exhibition halls namely Chalcolithic Period Hall, Early Bronze Period Hall, Tablet Hall, Assyrian Trade Colonies Period Hall, Hittite Period Hall, Late Hittite Period Stone Artefacts Hall, Archaic-Classical Period Halls, Hellenistic Period Hall, Roman Period Hall, Eastern Roman Period Hall, Seljuk Period Hall and Ottoman Period Hall where the artefacts found in Kayseri and its surroundings and brought to our Directorate and the artifacts found in the Kültepe Kaniş/Neşa excavations, which were excavated continuously from 1948 to the present, in Kültepe Karum/Kaniş Ruins, 22 km east of Kayseri are exhibited. There is also a temporary exhibition hall where temporary exhibitions are held.Folder on web

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Private photo gallery of over 150 pictures.
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