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Museums in Bursa

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

Bursa Archaeological Museum

Türkiye's third-oldest museum, founded in 1904, whose collections run from the Miocene to the Byzantine era, including the Paşalar fossil elephant and a gold olive diadem.

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Bursa Atatürk House Museum

A late-19th-century villa on Çekirge Street where Atatürk stayed on his visits to Bursa, kept with almost all of his original furniture.

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İznik Lake Basilica

An early Christian basilica lying beneath the waters of Lake İznik, spotted from the air in 2014 and now approached by a walking platform and a small museum.

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İznik Museum

A 14th-century soup kitchen with an unusual inverted-T plan, turned into the museum of ancient Nicaea, with finds from prehistory to the Ottoman era and a garden of stone fragments.

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Mudanya Armistice House Museum

The wooden house in Mudanya where the 1922 armistice was signed, kept with its signing hall, İsmet Pasha's study and bedrooms, photographs and documents from that historic weekend.

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Nilüfer Hatun Imaret Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts

An early Ottoman soup-kitchen and lodge in İznik, built by Murad I for his mother, now a museum of İznik tiles, coins and Islamic gravestones.

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Ottoman House Museum

A 17th-century Bursa house beside the Muradiye complex, opened as a museum in 1958, with painted and carved woodwork on its upper floor.

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Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum

Bursa's museum in the Green Madrasa, with tiles, woodwork, metalwork, coins and costume from the Seljuk, principality and Ottoman periods, plus a garden of Bursa tombstones.

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