Amasra Museum

Amasra has been a port town since antiquity, and its museum grew out of that richness. The idea was pushed for years by the poet and writer Tahir Karaoğuz, and a first small museum opened in 1955 in a room of the town hall before moving to an old primary school.

The present home is a one-storey building begun in 1884 as a naval school and left unfinished. The state bought it in 1975, completed it the following year and opened it to visitors in 1982.

Four halls, two archaeological and two ethnographic, hold objects collected mostly in Amasra itself. Expect small burial finds such as terracotta and glass perfume bottles, bronze figurines, bracelets, fish hooks, crosses and oil lamps, alongside amphorae and jugs recovered from the sea and coins in gold, silver and bronze from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine period. The ethnographic rooms show how the town lived in more recent times.