Kilis Museum is a museum in

Kilis Kilis is a city in south-central Turkey, near the border with Syria, and the administrative centre of Kilis Province. History Although there aren't any definite information related to its foundation, today's Kilis mainly developed and became ...

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Location

The museum is in Kilis, one of the recent province centers of Turkey. It is on Nemika street at

History

The museum is situated in a mansion named Neşet Efendi Konağı. The mansion was built in 1927. In 1979 the

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purchased the building. Between 1986-2008 it was the Kilis Public Library. On 20 June 2012 it was opened as the museum of Kilis.

Exhibited items

Kilis is situated in an area rich in archaeologic finds. Especially a

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named Oylum Höyük just southeast of Kilis centrum, is an important source of archaeologic finds. Cultural Property page
/ref> The ground floor of the museum is the archaeology section. In the first room paleolithic and

neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several p ...

finds are exhibited. The second room is reserved for the early

Bronze Age The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second prin ...

and the third room is reserved for the mid Bronze Age. Late Bronze Age,

Iron Age The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age ( Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age ( Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostl ...

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and

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items are in the main hall.Kilis governor's page
/ref> The upper floor is the ethnography section. Among the six rooms one room is the guest room of the Kilis citizens with classical furniture and mannequins representing three generations. One room is the bedroom and another one is the kitchen with its copper cockware.

References

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