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Tarsus Museum is an archaeology and ethnography museum in Tarsus, Mersin Province, in southern Turkey. The present location of the museum is in the city's cultural complex known as "75th Anniversary Culture Complex". The complex is in a neighborhood, which is rich in historical buildings like the Tarsus Grand Mosque and St. Paul's Church .
- 1971; 52 years ago
- Muvaffak Uygur Cad. 75. Yıl Kültür Merkezi, Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey
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Feb 27, 2017 · Tarsus Museum is an attractive venue that combines, as it often happens in Turkish museums, archaeological and ethnographic sections. The museum boasts more than 35,000 exhibits in its collections, of which the vast majority are antique coins. In addition, the museum collections contain more than 5,000 archaeological artifacts, 1.5 thousand ethnographic objects, and six historical manuscripts ...
Tarsus, Türkiye164 contributions. Tarsus. Oct 2012 • Couples. It is a nice, small and modern museum with findings from one of world's most important cities, 2000 year ago. Important: This museum is not in Mersin City, it is in Tarsus which is at 30 kms east of Mersin City.
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- Ismet Pasa Mah. Muvaffak Uygur Cad. 75. Kultur Merkezi Kompleksi Caminur, Tarsus
The Tarsus Museum, which was at the time of research in the process of moving from its former location in the city’s cultural centre to a disused government complex several hundred metres to the northeast, counts in its collection a small but interesting trove of ancient statuary, coins (one of which dates back to the 6th century BC) and other artefacts going back to the Hellenistic period ...
The restoration and display-arrangement works of the building, which were initiated to be used as the New Tarsus Museum, were completed and the museum was opened on 22.12.2020. There are 805 archaeological artifacts, 404 ethnographic artifacts and 810 coins in the exhibition section of the Yenir Tarsus Museum. Among the archaeological artefacts ...
- tarsusmuzesi@ktb.gov.tr
- Kızılmurat Mah. Atatürk Cad. No:28 Tarsus/MERSİN, Mersin
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It was abandoned after the Christian inhabitants left Tarsus and later used for various purposes. The church, which underwent restoration, is visited by Christians as a pilgrimage center. The restoration works began in 1997 and completed in 2001 and the church was opened to visitors as a “Memorial Museum”.
It is a nice, small and modern museum with findings from one of world's most important cities, 2000 year ago. Important: This museum is not in Mersin City, it is in Tarsus which is at 30 kms east of Mersin City. This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
