Milas Stone Works Museum

This museum occupies the Ahmed Gazi Madrasah, built in 1375 inside the ruins of Beçin Castle. It is the only building in Beçin that still bears its original inscription. After restoration it was given a new life as the Milas Stone Works Museum, run by the Milas Museum Directorate.

The building follows a type of madrasah with a single storey, an open courtyard without a portico and two iwans, a plan common in the Seljuk and Beylik periods. In its main iwan lie the tomb of Ahmed Gazi, who founded the madrasah, and another tomb belonging to someone unknown.

Inside, the museum has nine rooms, two corridors and a courtyard, and it shows thirty-five stone works, arranged in chronological order and divided between the Beylik and Ottoman periods. Because the building is itself a madrasah, there are also ethnographic objects about education and burial customs, a cinevision room, miniatures of Anatolian madrasah buildings and an animation room. It is a small but thoughtful stop for anyone interested in stone carving and Islamic learning.