Amasya Museum

Founded in 1925, Amasya Museum worked from several buildings before moving into its modern home in 1977 and opening there in 1980. Its displays run from the Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic through the Bronze Age, Hittites, Urartians, Phrygians, Scythians and Persians to Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, Ilkhanid and Ottoman times, thirteen cultures in all.

Two things are singled out for visitors. The first is the so-called Apple Mosaic, a floor from a Roman villa, on the first floor. The second is the Mummy Hall, a dedicated room where bodies from the 14th-century Ilkhanid period lie in glass coffins. They belonged to officials and relatives of people who lived in Amasya while the Ilkhanids ruled Anatolia.

Among the other highlights is a bronze statue of Teshub, the Hittite storm god, from the imperial period. In the garden to the west of the building, stone works from Hittite, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Ilkhanid, Seljuk and Ottoman times are displayed in the open air.