Both museums are located at Haleplibahçe Mahallesi 2372, Sok Eyyübiye/Şanlıurfa (across the Şanlıurfa Piazza Mall).

The current museum is on Haleplibahçe street, close to Balıklıgöl, a sacred pool.

With a closed area of 34,000 square metres (370,000 sq ft), it is one of the biggest museums of in Turkey.

[2] In the ethnographic section, clothes, silver and bronze ornaments, handworks, doors with epitaph, examples of calligraphy, and hand written Korans are exhibited.

[4] It includes the Urfa Man statue, dated c. 9000 BC (11,000 years ago), being considered as the oldest life-sized sculpture of a human already discovered.