Eskişehir Eti Archaeology Museum, a.k.a. Eskişehir Archaeology Museum (), is a national

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

museum in

Eskişehir Eskişehir ( , ; from 'old' and 'city') is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. The urban population of the city is 821 315 (Odunpazari + Tebebasi), with a metropolitan population of 921 630. The city is l ...

, Turkey. It was established in 1974.

Location

The museum is located in the center of Eskişehir on Atatürk Boulevard at . The street to the east of the museum is ''Müze Street'' named after the museum.

Background

The museum was initially established in 1966 in the Kurşunlu Complex, a religious complex building, which is about east of the current location. In 1974, the museum moved to its own building. As this building became insufficient, a new building was constructed, which was financed and donated by ETİ Food Industry, a cookie producer based in Eskişehir. On 28 May 2011, the museum was reopened in its new and larger building.Eskişehir Official Museum page
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Museum building

The total area of the museum, including the building and the yard, is . The building consists of three blocks. One block is reserved for the administration and auxiliary services such as library, laboratory, photo lab, etc. The basement of the two other blocks are stock rooms. The ground floor of one block is a conference hall and the ground floor of the other block is multipurpose art gallery. The museum exhibition halls are situated in the upper floors of both blocks.

Collection

The exhibited items span

Neolithic The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

Chalcolithic The Chalcolithic ( ) (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper. It followed the Neolithic and preceded the Bronze Age. It occurred at different periods in di ...

Bronze Age The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of ...

, Hittite,

Phrygia In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; , ''Phrygía'') was a kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River. Stories of the heroic age of Greek mythology tell of several legendary Ph ...

Hellenistic In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the R ...

Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of Roman civilization *Epistle to the Romans, shortened to Romans, a letter w ...

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman E ...

and Ottoman periods. There are marble sculptures and figurines,

stele A stele ( ) or stela ( )The plural in English is sometimes stelai ( ) based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ ( ) based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles ( ) or stela ...

s, earthenware, metallic and glass gadgets for daily use, idols, ornaments, weapons etc. There is also an

elephant tusk Elephants are the largest living land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant ('' Loxodonta africana''), the African forest elephant (''L. cyclotis''), and the Asian elephant (''Elephas maximus''). ...

in the natural history section of the museum.Eskişehir Culture page
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References

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