Muğla Museum is a museum in

Muğla Muğla () is a city in southwestern Turkey. The city is the center of the District of Menteşe and Muğla Province, which stretches along Turkey's Aegean coast. Muğla's center is situated inland at an altitude of 660 m and lies at a dista ...

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. It is a general purpose museum combining natural history, archaeology and ethnography. The museum building, which is located on Müştak Bey street,Cultural Property page
''www.kulturvarliklari.gov.tr''. is the former prison of Muğla city. The building was restored and opened as a museum in 1994. Muğla Culture Tourism page
''dosim.kulturturizm.gov.tr''. One section of the museum exhibits the fossils of animals that lived 5-9 million years ago (i.e.,

Turolian The Turolian age is a period of geologic time (9.0–5.3 Ma) within the Miocene used more specifically with European Land Mammal Ages. It precedes the Ruscinian age and follows the Vallesian age. The Turolian overlaps the Tortonian The Tort ...

period) from Kaklıcatepe, a hill close to Muğla. Another section focuses on archaeology; finds from excavations in Stratonicea excavations are exhibited in this area. There is also a skeleton of a gladiator.Milliyet newspaper
''blog.milliyet.com.tr''. In ethnography section clothes and everyday tools from Muğla area are exhibited. There are 5460 items in the museum.

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