Sivas Archaeology Museum

Sivas is one of the Turkish cities where the idea of a museum took root early: the first museum was established here in 1923. The Sivas Archaeology Museum building went up in the late 1890s as an industrial school, was enlarged in 1911 as a school of art and carpet-making, and later served as a metal and carpentry workshop and then a high school, before taking its final form as a museum in 1983.

The three-storey building shows ethnographic objects on the first floor, while the second floor is devoted to documents and displays on Atatürk, the Sivas Congress and the national struggle. Museum records list a wide collection, including ethnographic items, a large number of coins, archaeological finds, cuneiform tablets, seals and seal impressions, and handwritten manuscripts.

The museum directorate also oversees other sites in the province, including the Aşık Veysel Museum in Sivrialan, while restoration work has been under way at Buruciye Madrasah and Akaylar Mansion.