Museum of Burdur Archaeology
The ancient monuments in Burdur and its
environs were formerly collected and conserved in the library building, which is
the only remaining building of Bulguroğlu (Pirgulzade) School and thus the first
steps towards the constituting of the museum were taken. The opening ceremony of
the exhibition halls of Burdur Museum was held in 1969.
Today, Burdur Museum is among the first 10 - 15 museums of our country with its
50.000 monuments. The museum, which is very rich in monuments, is insufficient
in terms of place. The museum shall gain a new identity with new exhibition
halls to be built in 1998.
Burdur represents the common features of
Mediterranean, Aegean and Central Anatolian civilizations in terms of its
location. The findings in Burdur Museum are the historical and cultural treasury
of a past of 9000 years, since BC 7000 to date.
There are 3 sections in Burdur Archaeology Museum to examine:
1. Garden (Open Exhibition): Statues, steles, various
architectural objects, tombs and tombstones, incomplete inscriptions, high
embossments, etc. of Phrygian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Times
are exhibited in the garden of the museum.
2. Statue Hall: Almost all of the monuments exhibited in this
hall have been brought from the archaic city of Kremna within the borders of
Bucak District of Burdur in the 18th century. These monuments include a Great
and Lesser Athena, Hygieia, Leto, Apollo, Nemesis, Dionysos, Aphrodite and woman
statues with cloths, all of high artistic value.
3. Small Monuments Hall: The monuments in this hall are
arranged in chronological order. Among the monuments exhibited in this hall,
there are monuments of Late Neolithic, Early and Late Chalcolithic and Early
Bronze ages found in excavations carried out in Hacılar - Kuruçay - Höyücek
tumuli, earthenware, painted and unpainted vessels of the Iron Age and of
Prygian, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods, Goddess figurines,
stone and bronze axes and other tools, ornaments, cosmetic material, rhyton
vessels, seals and cylindrical stamps representing ownership and legal concepts,
oil - lamps and their moulds, metal god figurines, bronze athlete statues,
coins, and beautiful statue findings and other small findings dicovered in
excavations at the ancient city of Sagalassos, which has been one of the largest
archaeological digging sites in our country these last ten years.
When Burdur Museum was built in 1956, it was small; however, it acquired a great
number of monuments. As a result of the archaeological excavations (Hacılar,
Kuruçay, Höyücek, İncirhan, Bubon and Sagalassos), the number of the movable
cultural monuments in the museum reached 52.941 in 1997, with those obtained by
confiscation, donation and purchasing. 18.521 of these monuments are
archaeological, 29.765 of them are coins and 4.655 of them are ethnographical
cultural monuments. It is possible to find the most beautiful exsamples of all
ages and periods, starting from the Neolithic Age.