MUSEUMS

The Museum List

Ephesus Archeological Museum

The Turkish Bath Museum

Seljuk TCDD Open-air Steam Locomotives Museum

Aydin Museum

Miletos Archeology Museum

Geyre Museum

Ataturk Ethnography Museum (Denizli)

Ozluce Open-air Museum

Museum of Underwater Archeology (Bodrum)

Turkish Bath Museum (Bodrum)

The Archeological Museum houses an impressive collection of statues and other finds recovered during the excavations of Ephesus.

The nearby Turkish Bath Museum, built in the 16th century, shows Turkish life at the hamam (bath).

Near Seljuk in Camlik is a TCDD Open-air Steam Locomotives Museum.

In the city of Aydin, the local museum displays artifacts from the different periods of its history.

Milet (Miletos), like Priene, was a great Ionian port and the birthplace of several philosophers and sages. The theater justifies a visit as do the Archeology Museum and the well - preserved ruins of the Faustina baths.

Geyre became the center of the greatest sculpting school of antiquity. Many of its marvelous works of art are now housed in the local museum.

Modern Denizli is a city of wide streets, parks and hotels. The Ataturk Ethnography Museum in the city center displays folk art and ethnic artifacts.

In the village of Ozluce,a veritable open-air museum east of Mugla, is Turolian Park, where you can find very ancient fossils.

Bodrum Castle, or Castle of St. Peter in the harbor is a fine example of 15th-century crusader architecture, and has been converted into the Museum of Underwater Archeology, displaying artifacts dating as far back as the Bronze Age.

There is also a hamam (Turkish bath) museum in Bodrum dating from the early 1900s.