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Museums in Çanakkale

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

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Alexandria Troas Archaeological Site

A huge planned city on the Aegean coast near Ezine, founded after Alexander the Great's death, with a vast gymnasium, stadium, theatre, baths and 8 km of walls.

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Apollon Smintheion Archaeological Site

A Hellenistic sanctuary of Apollo near the Aegean coast of the Troad, home to an Ionic temple decorated with reliefs from Homer's Iliad.

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Assos Archaeological Site

A hilltop ancient city with a Doric Temple of Athena, a Roman theatre and sea views, once home to Aristotle's school.

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Çanakkale Epic Promotion Centre

An underground war museum at Kabatepe on the Gallipoli Peninsula, with animation rooms, dioramas, real trenches and a 65-minute audiovisual show.

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Çanakkale Red Crescent Reenactment Area

An open-air reconstruction at Alçıtepe of a 1915 field hospital and front-line trench, with sound effects that put you in the Gallipoli campaign.

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Hamidiye Battery and Çanakkale Wars History Museum

A coastal fort of the 1890s on the Dardanelles, now a museum of the First World War and the Gallipoli campaign, with a culture park and a miniature Gallipoli.

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Kilitbahir Castle Museum

A 15th-century Ottoman fortress built by Mehmed the Conqueror at the narrowest point of the Dardanelles, with a seven-floor tower and a museum of castle life.

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Namazgâh Battery Museum

A Dardanelles fort of the 1915 naval battle, now a small museum with a 1:100 model, a documentary on the sunken Allied warships and a reenactment of the battery communications.

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Troy Museum

A modern museum at the entrance to the ancient site of Troy, telling the city's layered story through artefacts, dioramas and touch screens, with a sculpture garden.

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Troy Archaeological Site

The famous ancient city of Troy, where nine stacked layers reveal over three thousand years of settlement between Anatolia, the Aegean and the Balkans.

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