Çorum Museum takes visitors on historical journey

Çorum Museum, home to artifacts from eight civilizations, welcomes history enthusiasts. The 110-year-old museum, built as a hospital in 1914, is among outstanding architectural structures in the country.

Çorum Museum in Central Anatolia takes its visitors on an unforgettable historical journey with its 15,000 artifacts. Located in the province of Çorum and built as a hospital in 1914, the 110-year-old museum building later served as a school and is among the noteworthy architectural works in Türkiye, coined the "Topkapı Palace of Anatolia."

The historical building, which was once flocked by people seeking cures for their diseases and then hosted students, was converted into a museum in 2003. As Çorum has an important place in the field of archaeology in Türkiye, historical artifacts found in the city's excavation areas such as Hattusa Şapinuva, Alacahöyük, Eskiyapar and Resuloğlu are exhibited in the museum.

In addition to being Türkiye's first boarding museum, Çorum Museum, which is registered as an immovable cultural asset that needs to be protected, had its showcases renewed before the opening of the new tourism season. New arrangements were made in the museum and some artworks were put on display for the first time.

The glass cases on the fourth floor of the museum, where gold artifacts from the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Eastern Roman periods are on display, were changed within the framework of the renovation works.

Most of the 115 works in the museum warehouse, consisting of jewelry and ornaments made of gold and semi-precious stones, were brought to the country through confiscation, purchase and rescue excavations.

Among the rare artifacts in the museum is a 3,600-year-old bronze Hittite seal, which was used...