Antalya Museum Directorate

The Necropolis Museum in the southern province of Antalya, which was once used as a bus terminal and market area, takes its visitors on a historical journey through glass walkways following excavations conducted in the area.

Belgian tourists Kim and Warre Mergits, who were first convicted for possessing three Roman stones and then released and returned to their country, were sentenced to 10 months in prison and a judicial fine with a new court decision.

The East Garage Necropolis Area, which was once a public market in the southern province of Antalya and where archaeological excavations started after the discovery of rock tombs, has been transferred to the Culture and Tourism Ministry.

With the project, which had a cost of approximately 292 million Turkish liras, the necropolis area has been opened as a museum.

Nine historic artifacts, including the Perge sarcophagus and the statue of Emperor Verus, that have been returned to Türkiye three months ago from the U.S., receive great interest from visitors at the Antalya Museum. Last year, 166,000 people visited the museum, according to figures.

With the construction of the Necropolis Museum nearing the end, the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality will present 2,300 years of history of the Mediterranean region to local and foreign visitors.

Two 2,000-year-old granite columns dating back to the Roman era, which previously made headlines after a local used them as an apartment building decoration, were taken on July 3 to a museum in the southern province of Antalya.

Controversy has been stirred in the southern province of Antalya after a local man put two 2,000-year-old granite columns dating back to the Roman era in front of his apartment building.

A bull figure from the Bronze Age, which was purchased half a century ago, has been sent to the Antalya Museum from Vienna. 

Culture and Tourism Minister Ömer Çelik said a person named Manfred Weinwurm, who purchased the figure from Antalya, sent the historic artifact by cargo.