Troy Museum

The ninth edition of the Çanakkale Biennial, organized by CABININ - Çanakkale Biennial Initiative, a civil initiative that has brought together different communities around contemporary art in the northwestern province of Çanakkale since 2008, kicks off today.

A child has become Türkiye's youngest artifact donor after delivering a coin from the 2,000-year-old Roman-era ancient city of Alexandria Troas that he found in the garden of his house to Troy Museum Director Rıdvan Gölcük via archaeologist Hazal Fırat.

Troy Museum in Çanakkale, where artifacts from the 5,600-year-old Troy Ruins are displayed, is set to host 800,000 local and foreign tourists until the end of the year, and it targets to reach 1 million visitors in 2024.

Troy Museum in the northwestern province of Çanakkale has been deemed worthy of the European Museum Academy Special Award.

The Culture and Tourism Ministry said in a statement on Sept. 19 that the museum also received the 2020 European Museum of the Year Special Appreciation Award.

Turkey will deliver icons stolen from historical local churches to Istanbul's Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomew, the government said on Aug. 9. 

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Excavations in the ancient city of Troy, which is located in the northwestern province of Çanakkale and considered one of the important areas of archaeological studies in the world, have revealed that the region was a favorite of tourists 2,500 years ago, too.

Troy Museum, located at the entrance to the ancient city of Troy in the northwestern province of Çanakkale, is now a candidate for the European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) for 2020 by the European Museum Forum (EMF).