Ordu Museum

The Ordu Museum is housed in the Paşaoğlu Mansion, in the Selimiye district of the city centre. It was built in 1896 for Paşaoğlu Hüseyin Efendi, one of Ordu's wealthy notables, on a plot of 625 square metres including the garden. Its stone came from Ünye, its timber and tiles were brought from Romania, and craftsmen from Istanbul worked on it. The mansion is often named as one of the finest examples of 19th-century civil architecture on the Black Sea.

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism expropriated the building in 1982, repaired it from 1983 and opened it as a museum on 18 November 1987. It has three floors. The ground floor houses the museum offices, the first floor is an ethnographic and archaeological display, and the second floor has been arranged to show how such a mansion was lived in, with a sofa, a grandmother's room, a daily room, a guest room and a bedroom.

Among the archaeological highlights are five Hellenistic pieces from the 1st century BC: a statuette of Apollo, a ritual rhyton, a female head carved in onyx, a statue of the child Dionysus and a statue of Dionysus Mithraphoros.