Şanlıurfa Archaeology Museum

The Şanlıurfa Museum has served the city since 1965 and moved into its large modern building in 2015. It shows finds from Şanlıurfa and the surrounding region and is internationally important for the Neolithic period. It also holds material from Göbeklitepe, widely regarded as the world's oldest temple.

The complex has 14 main exhibition halls and 33 recreation areas, plus an archaeopark with chronologically arranged building examples and an excavation training area. The displays run in order from Palaeolithic surface finds through the Neolithic, with Balıklıgöl Man, a life-size figure regarded as the oldest known real statue in the history of civilisation, Göbeklitepe finds and reconstructions, and the Nevali Çori temple, to the Bronze, Iron, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods.

The backbone of the collection comes from Harran and its surroundings, alongside rescue-excavation finds from settlements now beneath the dam lakes on the Euphrates. Flint tools, stone idols, painted pottery, seals and jewellery fill the cases.