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ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF iZMiR |
İzmir
Archaeological Museum is the place to see spectacular sculpture and other antiquities
discovered not only in İzmir itself, but in other ancient cities in the region. Founded
over 75 years ago, the museum moved to its present modern building in 1984. One of the
ground floor galleries contains stone carvings and statues arranged in chronological
order. At the entrance is a 1.83 metre high kore or statue of a young girl. Another kore
found near the Temple of Apollo at the oracular centre of Claros (Ahmetbeyli), and
a kuros (young man) carrying a bullock for sacrifice are among the other early period
works.
The Archaeological Museum, near Konak Square, houses a superb collection of antiquities including
the statues of Poseidon and Demeter which, in ancient times, stood in the Agora.
Neighbouring the Archaeology Museum, the collection in the Ethnography Museum contains
folkloric artifacts, which includes a fine collection of Bergama and Gördes carpets,
traditional costumes and camel bridles. Situated on Atatürk Caddesi, in an old Izmir
house used by the founder of the Turkish Republic, the Atatürk Museum exhibits
photographs of the leader as well as some of his personal effects.
The Fine Arts Museum, located in Konak, displays the works of famous Turkish
painters.
The findings collected from excavations are exhibited in this museum.
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The Top Floor Exhibiting
Salons :
The works
of art his that are in the first gallery of this floor were found in different parts of
Western Anatolia. The small statues made of glass, bronze, ring stones,
pots, pans,
kerosine lamps and the small statues are classified and exhibited inside the display
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They are chronologically ordered from the primitive ages to the end of the
Byzantian Period. The places where these works were found are not exactly known and they
were recieved through donations and auctions.
The works exhibited in the second gallery of this salon are occupied by the
archeological excavations by archeologists and historians. The places they were found are
not known exectly. These are exhibited in chronological order for didactic
purposes. These
works were found in the archeological excavations that were made in Eski Izmir (Symrna),
Çandarlı, Myrina, Foça, Çeşme (Erythrai) and the ancient
Lasos also there is a storage
department this floor. In this division we can see the golden grave gifts, glass and
bronze works, and also the bronze Demeter (goddess
of fertility) which was found in
Halicarnasus.
Some of the display windows are arranged with the Greek gollden coins, Roman golden coins
and Venedic coins.
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The Middle Floor Exhibition
Salon :
The
marble sculptures, marble busts, sculptures heads and portraits are exhibited on this
floor, which is located in the entrance of this
museum. The small works are made of marble
and are exhibited in classfications in eight windows found on this floor.
The Korean sculpture that was found in Erythrai is one of the first examples of
large marble sculptures from the Ancient Age, which makes it remarkable. It is llocated in
the entrance of the Salon, next to the Bronze Athlete Sculpture that was found in Kyma and
is a rarely found bronze example. This Salon wholly represents Western Anatolia with its
works.
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The First
Floor :
A
part of this floor is reserved for the rock formations of graves. Empire Domitianos, who
lived in the first century A.D., his arms and head draws attention. It was 7.20 m. in
height when it was first made. We only have its head, arms and feet today because its body
was made of wood. In the other parts the laphits and grave stells, which were made of
baked clay and marble and belonged to different periods are available. Among these
laphits, the famous clay laphits of the ancient world, the Klazomenai can be seen. The
late Hellenistic grave stells are one of the richest collections of the
world. "The
Belevi Grave Monument" ceiling casette blisters that are remarkable examples of the
Hellenistic Period, are located in this salon. At the end of the salon the group of
Poseidon. Demeter, Artemis sculptures, which were found in the (Agora ören
Place) that is
now completely in the center of Izmir, are display because they were found in Izmir.
Regarding these reasons the Izmir Archeology Museum enlightens the civilization that
passedo through West Anatolia starting from the prehistoric ages up to today. It takes its
place as one of the remarkable museums in Turkey. Also it shows the taste of art of the
ancient periods and its superiority in this Field.
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| The Tahtalı Dam salvage
excavations also revealed Hellenistic and late Roman finds, such as a burial jar in the
form of a beehive containing terracotta figurines, grave goods from other tombs and
coins.
İzmir Archaeological Museum presents a fascinating journey through Aegean history and art
over a span of five thousand years, and once you have been there, you will see the
regiosnd ancient ruins with new eyes. |
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ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF AGORA |
| Etymologically, agora means Public Square and shopping
district. Agora,
which has commercial, judicial and political functions, is a place where the art
activities increases, the background of philosophy is laid out and where the
stoas, monuments, altars and statues exist. |
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Agora located in Namazgah district of İzmir remained from Rome Period (AD 2nd century) and it was built according to Hippodamos city plan, in three floors,
close to the centrum.
İzmir agora is the one which is the biggest and best protected of
the Ion agoras.
Most part of İzmir agora was found with the digs
carried out by Rudolf Naumann, Professor F. Miltner and Selahattin Kantar, the director of
İzmir Ephesus museums between the years 1932 - 1941 and it was figured out that it is a
three - floor compound structure in rectangular form with stairs in the front, built on
columns and arches around a large courtyard (120x180m) in the middle of
the building. Recent digs in agora begun on August 5th, 1996 with the approval of Ministry
of Culture and cooperation of İzmir Governor Office and the Directorate of Archaeology
Museum. |
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| At south east side of the agora, the area agora covered increased to 16.590
m2 after the surrounding wall of Misak-ı Milli Primary School, which was burnt in 1980s,
was jointed to agora. The agora studies are being carried out with the sponsorship of
İzmir Municipality as digging, restoration, archaeological cleaning and environmental
arrangement at five places such as agora area, northern gate basilica bottom, stoa and
ancient shopping centre. At the above-mentioned studies, the most important work has been carried out
by finding the northern gate of agora. It was figured out that the Goddess Vesta
embossments found in these digs were the continuation of embossments of Zeus altar
extracted during the first digs. Beside God Hermes, Dionysos, Eros, Herakles statues; many
man-woman-animal statues, heads, embossments, figurines and monuments made of marble,
stone, bone, glass, metal and cooked soil were found. The inscriptions found here give us
information about the people who aided to İzmir during İzmir earthquake in AD 178. |
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ETHNOGRAPHY MUSEUM |
The building of the Ethnography Museum was built with a Neoclassical style
of the early 19th century. It was restored from 1985 and 1988 and was used as
the Ethnography Museum. The building contains three floors above the ground
floor. The
first and second floors are for the exhibition illustrates Izmir and its
regions’ social
life and home life of the 19th century. In this way the fading manual arts of
today such as leather works, Turkish-bath culture, rope workings, wooden
stamping, copper workings, carpet weaving, pan arts and evileye beads are
presented. The subjects are
illustrated with photos and instroductionary panels.
The First Floor Exhibition :
In the first section on the right manual works, bathing suits and the living
rooms of the 19th century are found. In the second section examples of ancient
ovens, wooden works and first Turkish pharmacy are
exhibited. Izmir’s famous syrupist
welcomes us from the century he lived. In thi third section the Menemen pots of its
bazaar, camel wrestling folk plays and the Efe (swash buckling village dandy of
Southwestern Anatolia) and his costumes are presented. In the interior parts of the salons
money bags are displayed in windows and nacre objects, glass and opalin objects and manual
works are exhited.
The Second Floor Exhibition :
On the right side of this floor the first century’s bridal veils, ornament
properties of women, adisplay of wedding gowns, a brides room, a cicumcision room
(Islamic
law for boys), a living room, kitchen utensils, carigraphic book, Ottoman coins and
writing tools are exhibited. In the third section war tools such as arrows of the Ottoman
period, bows, rifles, guns, javelins, armor-clads, bayonets and generally Agean
Carpets,
small carpets, carpeting tools, bags, saddle bags are exhibited. In the installed windows
of the interior salons bridal guilts, samples of manual works, syrup
glasses, men’s
satisfaction equipments, tile porcelains are found |
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