Antalya Museum

Antalya Museum consists of 13 exhibition rooms, 1 open-air exhibition area, laboratories, a storeroom, repair shops, a photographic room, a conference hall, administrative offices, a cafeteria and living quarters for museum officials.

The exhibition rooms are as follows: The hall shows living creatures from man down to one celled animals, charts and pictures, fossils and bones.

[4] In this room, the statues of mythological figures dating from the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, Roman period are exhibited.

The list of statues includes the following mythological figures: Minerva, Zeus, Artemis, Harpocrates, Aphrodite, Asclepius, Tyche, Meleager, Hecate, Hermes and Marsyas.

In the centre of the room is a large statue of Plancia Magna, a great administrator who contributed much towards the development of Perge during that city's golden period.

[4] Here, Byzantine period mosaics found in excavations at Ksantos, and icons, from the region around Antalya are exhibited.

In addition, artefacts depicting Saint Nicholas and his sacred relics are on display preserved in its box.

Examples of gold, electron, silver, and copper coins from the Hellenistic to Ottoman periods are displayed here.

Simple restorations and educational activity opportunities for ceramic sculpture and drawing are provided and their works are presented in the studio section, to make children enjoy museums and antique objects, and to awaken their interests as well.