Bursa Archaeological Museum

Founded in 1904 as a branch of the Imperial Museum, Bursa Museum is the third-oldest in Türkiye, after Istanbul (1899) and Konya (1902). It began in the Bursa Boys' High School, moved to the Green Madrasa in 1930, and in 1972 the archaeology section moved to its present building in Kültürpark.

With no other museum nearby, it long acted as a regional museum. It ran the excavations at Ilıpınar Höyük until İznik Museum opened, and at Antandros and Daskyleion until Balıkesir Museum was founded, as well as rescue digs in Bilecik, Bandırma and Yalova. As a result the collection runs from the Miocene to the Byzantine era, shown in chronological order.

Highlights include a Chalcolithic terracotta vessel inlaid with beads from Aktopraklık Höyük; a Roman bronze bust of Athena and a bronze statue of Apollo from Miletopolis; and a Roman bronze statue of a boy holding a dog from a trial dig at Mudanya. A rare gold diadem with olive fruits, found in a Hellenistic sarcophagus at Gemlik, is also on display. Fossils from the Paşalar site include the Miocene ivory known as the "Paşalar Elephant".