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ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF BERGAMA |
As
the result of the archeological excavations that started in Bergama in 1878 under the
direction of Carl Humman and Alexander
Conze, a depot museum has been constructed near
the German Excavation House of today during the excavations made in the acropolis between
the years 1900 - 1913. This depot is one of the two archeological opus depots that were in
Turkey at that time. The excavations in Bergama, which were interrupted because of the 1st
World War, were re - started under the direction of Theodor Wiegand. In the same
year,
with the start of the excavations in Asklepieion in addition to the acropolis
excavations,
the number of opuses has increased and a new museum building was needed.
Marshall Fevzi Çakmak, who came to Bergama in 1932 has closely interested
with the issue and ordered the foundation of a new museum after his
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For the new
building that was planned to be constructed with Turkish - German
cooperation, the
location of today which is an old cemetery has been found appropriate. The project that
was prepared by the architects Bruno Meyer and Harold Hanson was completed at the end of
1932 and the works for base excavation were started in 1933 with the formal request of the
governor of İzmir, Kazım Dirik. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who visited
Asklepieion, which
was a health center, during his visit to Bergama on April 13th 1934, has seen that the
construction of the museum building was continuing.
Bergama museum, whose construction has been completed, was opened for visit
on October 30th 1936 by the governor of İzmir, Fazlı Güleç. The museum building
consisted of a large rectangular courtyard surrounded with galleries, and a rectangular
exhibition hall behind this courtyard. Since the galleries of the courtyard were suitable
for open - air museum, the opuses were exhibited there. When Ethnography and Archeology
Museum was taken into operation in Bergama Public House building in 1924, the
archeological opuses were taken to the new museum building. The ethnographic opuses were
taken into the museum building of today in 1979 after the construction of the additional
building. The additional building has a rectangular plan placed beside the
part, in which
the courtyard and exhibition hall exist, its entrance is provided via a door opening from
the courtyard to the hall. Units such as depot, laboratory, photograph
room, archive have
been added to the other side of the museum which was left empty and to its rear
part.
Most of the archeological opuses in the museum, which belong to various
periods from early bronze era to the Byzantine Period have been found in the excavations
made in Bergama and its surrounding. Among the finds found in the archaic residences
around, samples belonging to Pergfamon sculpture school, Archaic Period finds coming from
Pitane and Gryneion, Myrina terracotta draw attention. In the ethnography
section, carpets, kilims of the region (Yuntdağı,
Yağcıbedir, Kozak, Bergama weavings), cloth
weaving samples, hand works and other hand made opuses belonging to other regions of
Anatolia are exhibited. |
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