It was open to display on July 18, 1930
with works collected from the local
people. Inner court of the museum
temporarily hosted the sarcophagus
of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk for 15 years.
The inscription on a marble at the
inner section of the museum wrote:
“This is the place where Atatürk
laid to rest until November 10, 1953
who reached eternity on November
21, 1938 ”The Etnography Museum
is a museum which displays works
belonging to Turkish-Islamist Period
of Anatolia. Themed exhibitions
respectively clothes, embroidery,
jewellery, henna night, traditional
shaving ceremony of groom as well
as bath culture are displayed in the
halls. Weaving (carpet- rug) examples
belonging to various regions of
Anatolia, examples of metal art, coffee
culture themed exhibition, spoons,
the Turkish room, exhibitions about
the circumcision feast as well as
Turkish tile, ceramics, glass, weapon,
calligraphy, tablets and selective
wooden works belonging to the Seljuk
and Ottoman periods are among
the works displayed in the museum.
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Works belonging to the Besim Atalay collection are
also open to display.
Address: Hacettepe Mah. Türk Ocağı Sokak No: 4
Ulus-ANK.
Phone: (312) 3113007 Faks: (312) 3119596
Visiting Days: Everyday except Mondays.
Open between: 08.30-12.30/13.30-17.30 during
summer 08.30-12.30/13.30-17.00 during winter
The Gordion Museum
Established in 1963 in a village with a population
of approximately 250 people, the Gordion
Museum is one of the most important museums
of Turkey with its depots, labs, visual and
informative halls, open and covered display areas,
explanatory information facilities included to the
museum in 1990s. The museum displaying works
gathered together from the Polatlı province in
a chronological order, was one of the finalists of
the Museum of the Year competition in Europe
in 2000. Starting with the potteries belonging
to the Bronze Age and Early Phrygian Period,
orthostat reliefs belonging to the Early Phrygian
Period and iron tools also belonging to the Early
Phrygian Period are among the works displayed in
the museum. Spindle whorls, glass, seals and seal
impressions and Alexander the Great coins dated
between 4th and 2nd century B.C. are displayed in
the entrance hall.
tools as well as Cybele reliefs and figurines have
an important place in the museum. Tombs brought
from the Polatlı tumulus and which reveals the
burial traditions of Anatolia’s oldest settlers, the
Hatties, is among the other exhibitions of the
museum. The Galatian Tomb as well as Phrygian
and Roman mosaics are displayed in the garden of
the museum.
Address: Yassıhöyük Köyü Gordion Polatlı-ANK.
Phone: (312) 6382188
Visiting Days: Everyday.
Open between: Yaz: 09.00-16.30
Late Phrygian Period works and imported
ceramics as well as works belonging to the Lydian,
Hellenistic and Roman Periods which are dated
between 8 B.C. and 4. B.C. are displayed in the
Yener Yılmaz Hall. In addition to these, Phrygian
inscripted and printed potteries, terra-cotta works
belonging to the Phrygian architecture, various
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