Malatya Museum

Since Malatya has abundant and rich resources in terms of archaeological and ethnographic works, a museum building has been needed. The museum, taken into service in 1969 is a temporary building was moved in 1979 to its new place near Kernek Park, whose construction was started in 1975.nInformation Relating to the Works in the MuseumnnThe number of the works re - arranged and taken into exhibition in the museum is 15.518.nnIn the museum, the fossils found in especially the sand mines or sand rocks in Malatya region, Neolithic, Calcolithic, Bronze Period finds; Hittite, Urartu, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman Period works are exhibited.nnIn the areas under Karakaya Dam Lake in the provincial borders of Malatya, some of the works obtained from Pirot, Caferhöyük, Köşkerbaba, İmamoğlu and Değirmentepe Tumulus, Arslantepe Tumulus are given hereunder:nnNeolithic small sculptures (8000 BC); obsidian knives, sickles, arrow ends, cutters and perforators; swords and spear ends (3200 - 3000 AD); human grave (4000 AD); seal prints (3200 - 3000); rythons (1200 - 1700 BC), sculptures and rock inscriptions.

Nice displays of nearby archaeological sites, mostly Arslantepe but also a few others. Not a lot to see but nicely laid out and plenty of information, in English too. Friendly guards. Some of the major finds from Arslantepe have been taken to Ankara.

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It needs to be renewed urgently. Many valuable artifacts from Aslantepe Mound, which is the feed of civilization, are exhibited in bananas in different cities such as Ankara, Istanbul. There is no date on the works. There is no technological infrastructure. The works are very insufficient.