The Museum of Tarsus

The Tarsus Museum, which was opened in 1971 in the Kubat Pasha Madrassa, entered service in its new building in 2000. The new museum, which exhibits artifacts found and purchased in archaeological excavations around Tarsus, is designed as a three-story building. In the upper hall, ethnographic artifacts and the corner of the Tarsus house are arranged to revive the Turkmen Culture of Chukurova. Artifacts from the Chalcolithic, Old Bronze, Hittite, Urartian, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods shed light on the prehistoric and historical wealth of Tarsus. In the first section of the museum's lower floor exhibition hall, the Glass Cave Excavation, the Republic Square Excavation, the Donuktaş Excavation, the St. Artifacts from the Paul's Well Excavation and the Roman Monumental Tomb Excavation are on display. The chronology section of the museum and the areas where the stone works are found, the sculptures, the tombstones, the marble sarcophagus and the pieces of architectural structure from the Donuktaş excavation and the "Coin Collection" ranging from the 6th century BC to the last Ottoman period are eye-catching. The museum also has library and laboratory facilities.