Burdur Museum

Burdur lies in ancient Pisidia, in the Lake District of southwest Türkiye, and its archaeological record goes back to the Palaeolithic. Excavations at Hacılar, Kuruçay, Bademağacı and other sites show that Neolithic and Chalcolithic farmers lived in the area. The museum brings this long story together under one roof.

It began in 1956 with local antiquities gathered in the surviving library building of the Pirkulzade Madrasa, an 18th-century Ottoman structure, and opened its first halls in 1969. As the collection grew, new halls, offices and a conference room were built in a matching style and opened in 2006.

The ground floor shows finds from Sagalassos and other cities of the province, such as Cremna and Kibyra. Look for the heads and feet of the colossal statues of the emperors Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius, unearthed in 2007–08 in the Roman baths of Sagalassos. Upstairs are Bronze Age ceramics from Hacılar, Kuruçay, Höyücek and Yarımtepe, finds from the Ulupınar necropolis, Attic vessels, lamps, glass, metalwork, jewellery and coins. The garden around the Pirkulzade library displays stelae, altars, friezes, sarcophagus lids, milestones and inscriptions.