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Museums in Muğla

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

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Amyntas Rock Tomb

A 4th-century BC Lycian tomb carved into the cliff above Fethiye, reached by nearly a hundred steps and overlooking the town and the sea.

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Bodrum Ancient Theatre

The best-preserved relic of ancient Halicarnassus, a 4th-century BC theatre on the slope of Göktepe with views of the sea, Kos and the Datça peninsula.

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Bodrum Castle and Underwater Archaeology Museum

The castle of the Knights of St John that houses the museum: seven gates, towers named after European nations, a moat, a drawbridge and views over the harbour.

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Bodrum Mausoleion Monument Museum

The site of the Mausoleion of Halicarnassus in Bodrum, tomb of King Maussollos and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

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Bodrum Underwater Archaeology Museum

Inside Bodrum Castle, the only museum in Turkey devoted to underwater archaeology, with Bronze Age and medieval shipwreck finds, glass, and one of the world's great amphora collections.

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Gemile Island

A small island at the southern end of Fethiye Bay with Byzantine church ruins, tombs and a sacred hilltop, reached by boat.

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Kayaköy Archaeological Site

An abandoned hillside village near Fethiye, the ancient Karmylassos, with hundreds of roofless stone houses and churches left after the population exchange.

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Letoon Ancient City

The sacred centre of ancient Lycia, dedicated to the goddess Leto, with three temples, a theatre and a spring, part of the Xanthos-Letoon World Heritage Site.

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Fethiye Museum

Fethiye's museum of archaeology and ethnography, home to a famous trilingual Lycian stele; currently listed as closed to visitors.

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Pınara Archaeological Site

A Lycian hill city near Fethiye, with a round rock honeycombed with tombs, a theatre, an agora and rock-cut graves.

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Iasos Archaeological Site

An ancient port city on a peninsula in the Gulf of Güllük, with a great city wall, aqueducts, tombs and the famous Fish Market, only 28 km from Milas.

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Kaunos Ancient City

A Carian port city near Dalyan, famous for rock-cut tombs facing the river, with a theatre, Roman baths and an acropolis on a 152 m hill.

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Labraunda Archaeological Site

A Carian mountain sanctuary of Zeus Labraundos above Milas in Muğla, reached by a long sacred road and shaped by the Hekatomnid dynasty in the 4th century BC.

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Lagina Archaeological Site

The great sanctuary of Hekate in Carian country, in the hills of Yatağan in Muğla, with a monumental gateway, a sacred way and a Corinthian temple at its heart.

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Marmaris Museum

A museum inside the Ottoman castle of Marmaris, built for Süleyman the Magnificent, showing finds from Knidos, Emecik and the sea floor around the bay.

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Beçin Castle and Archaeological Site

A medieval Turkish capital of the Menteşe emirate, Beçin crowns a steep rock above Milas with a castle, madrasa, mosque and bath still standing among excavated streets.

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Euromos Archaeological Site

A small Carian city near Milas in Muğla, best known for its beautifully preserved 2nd-century Temple of Zeus Lepsynos, with a theatre, agora and necropolis nearby.

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Iasos Fish Market Museum

A small open-air museum at Iasos in Muğla, built around a monumental Roman tomb inside a colonnaded enclosure known as the Fish Market, with finds from the Italian digs.

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Milas Stone Works Museum

A museum inside the 1375 Ahmed Gazi Madrasah at Beçin Castle near Milas, showing carved stonework of the Beylik and Ottoman periods in a beautifully restored courtyard building.

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Milas Uzunyuva Mausoleum and Museum Complex

A hilltop complex in Milas built around the rock-cut tomb of the Carian satrap Hekatomnos, with a carpet museum, a restored Milas house and a children's activity centre.

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Knidos Archaeological Site

A double city at the tip of the Datça peninsula where the Aegean meets the Mediterranean, with two harbours, a grid plan, a theatre and terraced sanctuaries.

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Muğla Museum

A museum in Muğla's former prison building, best known for its fossil hall from the Kaklıca hill dig, with ethnography, archaeology and gladiator-stele rooms.

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Sedir Island Archaeological Site

Ancient Kedrai on a protected island in the Gulf of Gökova, where ruins, a rare-sand beach and unspoilt nature share the same shore.

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Serçe Limanı Glass Shipwreck Hall

A hall in Bodrum Castle for the Byzantine shipwreck of about AD 1026, whose hull and cargo of Islamic glass were raised from Serçe Harbour.

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Stratonikeia Archaeological Site

A Hellenistic and Roman city at Eskihisar near Yatağan in Muğla, unusual for its old village houses standing among the ancient ruins.

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Tlos Archaeological Site

A Lycian hill city in the Xanthos Valley, with a theatre, stadium, rock tombs and an Ottoman lord's castle on the acropolis, set beneath steep cliffs near Fethiye.

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Zeki Müren Art Museum

The Bodrum house where the great singer Zeki Müren lived from 1980 until his death, showing his stage costumes, photographs, documents and personal belongings.

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