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Museums in Mersin

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

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Alahan Monastery

An early Christian pilgrimage complex on a terrace high above the Göksu Valley near Mut, with two churches, monks' cells cut in rock and a rich stone-carved decoration.

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Anamur Museum

A small museum on the Mediterranean coast showing finds from Anemurium, Nagidos and Mamure Castle, born from decades of excavation around Anamur.

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Anemurium Archaeological Site

A ruined Roman-era port city on Türkiye's southernmost cape, with baths, a theatre and an odeon spread between the sea and the Taurus foothills.

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Gözne Castle

A medieval outpost on high rocks at the entrance to Gözne, north of Mersin, made of two structures that once guarded the route inland.

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Kanlıdivane Archaeological Site

An ancient Cilician city built around a huge sinkhole west of Mersin, with churches, olive workshops, cisterns and a Roman road.

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Mamure Castle

A remarkably intact medieval fortress on the Mediterranean shore near Anamur, with 39 towers, a dry moat, a mosque and a bathhouse inside the walls.

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Mersin Atatürk House Museum

A large 1897 mansion on Atatürk Street in the centre of Mersin, once a consul's residence and a school, restored and opened as a museum in 1992.

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Kızkalesi (Maiden's Castle) and Korykos

The coastal ruins of ancient Korykos at Kızkalesi, Mersin: a land castle, a necropolis valley and the sea castle offshore, layered with Roman, Byzantine and Armenian history.

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Mersin Museum

A modern museum near the seafront in Mersin, opened in its new building in 2017, taking visitors through a time tunnel from prehistory to the Republic.

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Tarsus Museum

Tarsus's archaeology and ethnography museum, with finds from the Chalcolithic to the Byzantine period and a section on Çukurova traditions, metalwork and weaving.

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Silifke Asthma Cave

A natural cave near Narlıkuyu reached by a spiral iron staircase, known for its humid air, its stalactites and its "wishing cave" folklore.

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Silifke Atatürk House and Ethnography Museum

A 1914 stone-and-timber house in Silifke where Atatürk stayed on his first visit in 1925, now showing his belongings, photographs and local ethnography.

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Silifke Ayatekla Archaeological Site

A cave church near Silifke that grew around the refuge of Saint Thekla, one of Christianity's earliest and best-known women saints, with ruins from the age of Emperor Zeno.

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Cennet and Cehennem Sinkholes

Two vast natural sinkholes on the Mediterranean coast, with a 5th-century chapel, a Hellenistic temple of Zeus and the myth of the monster Typhon.

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Silifke Museum

The archaeological museum of Silifke, with finds from the Bronze Age to the Ottoman era shown in stone, coin, jewellery, ethnographic and garden displays.

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Silifke Narlıkuyu Mosaic Museum

A small museum built around a Roman bath floor showing the Three Graces, on the bay of Narlıkuyu near Silifke.

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St. Paul Memorial Museum, Tarsus

A three-aisled church of 1850 in Tarsus, now a museum in memory of Saint Paul, with ceiling frescoes of Christ and the four Evangelists and a bell tower in the corner.

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St. Paul's Well, Tarsus

A deep well in a courtyard in old Tarsus, long revered as part of the house of Saint Paul, next to the excavated walls of a building said to be his birthplace.

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Uzuncaburç Archaeological Site

One of Mersin's best-preserved ancient sites, a former Hellenistic sanctuary town with a Temple of Zeus, a colonnaded street, a theatre and a tall tower.

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