Muğla Museum

Muğla Museum is a museum in Muğla, Turkey. It is a general purpose museum combining natural history, archaeology and ethnography. The museum building, which is located on Müştak Bey street, is the former prison of Muğla city. The building was restored and opened as a museum in 1994.

One section of the museum exhibits the fossils of animals that lived 5-9 million years ago (i.e., Turolian period) from Kaklıcatepe, a hill close to Muğla. Another section focuses on archaeology; finds from excavations in Stratonicea excavations are exhibited in this area. There is also a skeleton of a gladiator. In ethnography section clothes and everyday tools from Muğla area are exhibited. There are 5460 items in the museum.

Key facts

Type: museum, historic building
Built: 1994
Located in: Aegean Region

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Coordinates: 37.217222, 28.368056Open in Google Maps

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Sources

The text on this page comes from: Muğla Museum (en.wikipedia.org), as of 10 July 2026

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