Eti Archaeological Museum

Eskişehir's museum story starts in 1945, when movable finds from the city were gathered in a store room in the Alaeddin Mosque. In 1966 a museum directorate was set up in the Kurşunlu Mosque Complex in Odunpazarı, and in 1974 a new building followed on Atatürk Boulevard.

The present museum is different. The Eti group of companies sponsored it under a protocol signed with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2007, and it is described as the first museum in Turkey carried out by the private sector from design through to display. The administrative building opened in 2010.

The complex has three blocks with about 4,000 square metres of usable space on a plot of roughly 1,300 square metres. The first floors of blocks B and C are given over to archaeological displays of objects collected across Eskişehir province, while a multipurpose hall and a semi-open hall host events and temporary exhibitions. Immovable pieces of heritage stand in the garden.