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Home - Turkey ArticlesThe Museum ListKucuk Haci Mustafa Hacikamiloglu Konagi Archeology Museum (Gaziantep) Kargamis Open - Air Museum Kuzeyne (Korus) Open - Air Museum Archeological Museum of Adiyaman Harran Open - Air Museum Ataturk House (Diyarbakir) Restoration of the 18th-century mansion, Kucuk Haci Mustafa Hacikamiloglu Konagi, is now complete. It has reopened and now serves as an art gallery. In Gaziantep, the Archeology Museum has important artifacts from Neolithic, Hittite and Roman times. The Hasan Suzer House, from the turn of the century, has been beautifully restored as the Ethnographical Museum. Kargamis is an open - air museum, where The site's finds, including immense basreliefs, have been moved to the Museum Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. Five km to the northeast is the town of Kuzeyne (Korus) that is like an open- air museum with its castle and mosaics. The Archeological Museum of Adiyaman houses regional finds from the Lower Firat which date from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic ages. In Harran, you can stop by at the archeological finds which are the largest ancient Islamic university, city walls dating from the eighth century, four gates and a citadel. Just outside the city walls of Diyarbakir, stands Ataturk's house, now a museum. |