Bergama Museum

The Bergama Museum is an ethnography and archeology museum located in the Bergama district of Izmir. As a result of the archaeological excavation studies initiated in Bergama under the leadership of Alexander Conze and Carl Humman in 1878, the warehouse museum of the German Excavation House was built there during the excavations carried out at the acropolis at the beginning of the 1900s. At that time, there were two archaeological warehouses in Turkey and this warehouse was one of them. These archaeological excavations in Bergama were suspended due to World War I. In 1927, it was continued again.

In addition to the excavations of Acropolis, excavations started in Asklepion that year and more works were found. With this situation, a new museum building was needed. Following the construction of the additional building in 1979, ethnographic works were exhibited in the museum. Laboratory, warehouse, archives are included in the rear side of the museum. Com/uploads/blog/632b5b8c7b285632b5b8c7b286.png """" This new structure was planned to be realized with the cooperation of Turkish-German and its current place, which is an old cemetery area, was found to be appropriate. The project was completed by two architects towards the end of the year and the foundation of the excavations was laid in 1933 with the request of the Governor of İzmir Kazım Dirik at that time. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who visited Bergama in 1934, visited Asklepion and saw that the construction of the museum building was continued. The museum consists of a rectangular courtyard surrounded by galleries and placed in the projection. Behind this courtyard is also located in the transverse dirty exhibition hall. Yörük, Turkmen, Çepni tribes in the Bergama region, local clothes, Bergama's bride and daily clothes, one of the important carpet production centers of Anatolia Yuntdağı, Kozak, Yağcıbedir regions called carpets, rugs, saddlers, examples, Tuzcu Efe, one of the well -known Efers of Bergama, forms important groups of personal clothes used during the War of Independence. What kind of works are exhibited in the museum? works. Most of these works consist of excavations carried out in and around Bergama. In addition, examples of sculpture from ancient regions and archaic finds are among the important works. In the ethnography part of the museum, there are many examples such as carpets, rugs, hand embroidery and fabric woven belonging to that region. In addition, hand -made works of other regions of Anatolia are also exhibited. It is located in Bergama district. You can visit the museum every day of the week between 08:30 and 19:00. The entrance fee to the museum is 1 for adult 20 TL . Museum card holders can visit free of charge. & Nbsp; You can add the historical place and the museum to your route.