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Museums in Aydın

13 museums and archaeological sites in the province of Aydın, with hours and what to see at each.

Aydın

Aphrodisias Museum and Archaeological Site

A UNESCO-listed Roman city devoted to Aphrodite, famous for its marble sculpture school, huge stadium and a museum right at the entrance.

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Alabanda Archaeological Site

A Carian city near Çine in Aydın, famed in antiquity for its wealth, with remains of a theatre, aqueduct, council house and necropolis.

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Alinda Archaeological Site

A Carian hill city in Karpuzlu, Aydın, the capital of Queen Ada, with an agora, theatre, temple foundations and sarcophagi.

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Aydın Archaeological Museum

A museum of archaeology, coins and ethnography with a big sculpture garden of stones from the ancient cities of the Aydın region, including Tralleis, Nysa and Alabanda.

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Didim Temple of Apollo

One of the largest Ionic temples of the ancient world, an oracle sanctuary of Apollo at Didyma with forests of columns and a Medusa-head guardian.

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Kadıkalesi Archaeological Site

A coastal mound near Kuşadası that guarded the harbour of ancient Anaia, with a 13th-century fortress over layers reaching back some 5,000 years.

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Karacasu Ethnography Museum

A small ethnography museum in Karacasu, Aydın, showing objects from the recent past of the town and region, including traditional crafts.

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Magnesia Archaeological Site

The ancient city of Magnesia on the Meander in Aydın, refounded in 400 BC beside a great temple of Artemis and preserved under river silt.

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Miletus Museum

A small museum next to the ruins of Miletus in Aydın, showing what the Ionian city was and how it faded once its harbour silted up.

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Miletus Archaeological Site

Once a busy Ionian harbour city, Miletus now lies among fields in Aydın, with its great theatre, bath ruins and the Lion Harbour monument still to walk through.

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Nysa Archaeological Site

A Roman-era city in Aydın's Sultanhisar with a well-preserved theatre, a library, gymnasium, agora, stadium and tunnel, all fitted to a steep valley.

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Priene Archaeological Site

A Hellenistic city laid out on a strict grid on a terrace above the Maeander plain, with a temple of Athena, a well-preserved theatre and stepped streets.

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Yörük Ali Efe House Museum

A museum in Aydın devoted to Yörük Ali Efe, a folk hero and commander of the Kuvayı Milliye in the War of Independence, with his belongings, photographs and grave.

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