Kırklareli Museum

Kırklareli Museum
Kırklareli Müzesi
Kırklareli Museum building
Location of Kırklareli Museum in Turkey
Established	1993 (1993)
Location	Mustafa Kemal Bulvarı 26, Kırklareli
Coordinates	41°44′01″N 27°13′29″E / 41.73361°N 27.22472°E / 41.73361; 27.22472Coordinates: 41°44′01″N 27°13′29″E / 41.73361°N 27.22472°E / 41.73361; 27.22472
Type	Natural history museum, Archaeology museum, Ethnographic museum
Collection size	3,507
Visitors	2013: 9,362 (417 foreigners) 2014: 9,066 (535 foreigners)
Director	Derya Balkan

Kırklareli Museum (Turkish: Kırklareli Müzesi) is a national museum in Kırklareli, Turkey, exhibiting natural history specimens, ethnographical items related to the region's history of cultural life as well as archaeological artifacts found in and around the city.^[1]^[2] Director of the museum is Derya Balkan.^[3]

Description

The museum's building was constructed for Mutasarrıf (Governor) Neşet Pasha and mayor Hacı Mestan Efendi in 1894. It was used as the municipality office until 1962. In the 1970s, the building was vacated and left to decay. Restoration works to convert it into a museum began in 1983, and continued with interruptions, completing finally in 1993.^[1]^[2]

It is a two-story building with a basement. The reinforced concrete building has arch-like windows on all four sides. A bay window on the first floor, in the center of the building front, is supported by four columns flanking the main entrance. The museum consists of three sections for "culture and nature", "ethnography", and "archaeology". The museum has a total of 3,507 registered items, including 1,882 coins, 1,110 archaeological artifacts, and 515 items related to ethnography.^[1]^[2]

The museum serves as a center for historic research of the region, as well as collaborates with scientific institutions, assisting and guiding them. Its main duty is to register the natural and cultural properties in the region. Currently, the register lists a total of 269 preservations, including 98 archaeological sites, 3 urban sites, 13 natural reserve areas, and 155 single-building historic sites.^[1]^[2]

The museum is open seven days a week from 9:00 to 18:00 local time between April 15 and October 26, during the daylight saving time practice. Otherwise, it is closed on Mondays.^[4] Access to the museum is free of charge. In 2013, a total of 9,362 people, including 417 foreign tourists, visited the museum.^[3] The number of visitors in 2014 amounted to 9,066, of which 535 came from abroad.^[5]

Natural history section

Some taxidermied bird species in the Natural history section

A large room on the first floor is reserved for the collection of natural history. A total of 102 species native to the region, including 76 taxidermied bird and mammal species,^[2] are on display in their natural environment. Some of the animals exhibited are extinct and some are endangered species. This section draws the interest of high school students, university biology students, and researchers.^[1]^[2]

Ethnography section

A typical household in the region

The exhibits of the ethnography section share the upper floor with the Archaeology section. This section consists of 188 items depicting rural area life in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and of city life in Kırklareli in the same period. Carpets, clothes, jewellery, and household objects are on display.^[1]^[2]

Archaeology section

A human skeleton and grave goods, as found in a sarcophagus

The 236 archaeological artifacts are all excavated finds from sites around Kırklareli; in the settlements of Aşağıpınar, Kanlıgeçit, and Tilkiburnu; and in the tumuli of İslambeyli, Pınarhisar, Alpullu Höyüktepe, and Dolhan. There are fossils of marine and land species, and trees spanning the time from the Holocene geological epoch to the era of Ancient Rome. There are archaeological artifacts from the Neolithic (New Stone Age), Chalcolithic (Copper Age), and Iron Age, as well as from the eras of Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantine Empire, and Ottoman Empire.^[1]^[2]^[3]

A sample collection of 72 coins from Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantine Empire, and Ottoman Empire is on exhibition. A life-size sculpture of a female human torso stands in the entrance hall on the ground floor. Marble reliefs from an amphitheatre of the Late Roman Empire (2nd century), unearthed between 1995 and 1997 in Vize, are exhibited on the staircase wall. Due to new archaeological finds unearthed at ongoing excavations and limited space in the museum, some archaeological items are interchanged from time to time.^[1]^[2]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Kırklareli Müzesi" (in Turkish). Kültür Varlikları ve Müzeler Genel Müdürlüğü. Retrieved 2015-07-20.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Kırklareli Museum". Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Retrieved 2015-07-20.
1 2 3 "Kırklareli Müzesi 2014 Ziyaretçilerini Bekliyor". Gazete Trakya (in Turkish). 2014-02-05. Retrieved 2015-07-23.
↑ "Müzelerde Yaz Saati Uygulaması/Haftanın 7 günü açık olacak müzele" (in Turkish). İstanbul Rehberler Odası. Retrieved 2015-07-23.
↑ "Kırklareli Müzesi'ni 9 bin 66 kişi ziyaret etti". Görünüm (in Turkish). 2015-01-16. Retrieved 2015-07-23.

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Archaeological museums in Turkey

Aegean Region	Afyonkarahisar Archaeological Museum Aydın Archaeological Museum Bodrum Castle Bolvadin Museum Bostanlı Open-air Archaeological Museum Ephesus Archaeological Museum Hierapolis Izmir Archeology Museum Archaeological Museum of Manisa Uşak Museum of Archaeology

Black Sea Region	Bolu Museum Çorum Archaeological Museum Kastamonu Archaeological Museum Konuralp Museum Trabzon Museum Samsun Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography Tokat Museum

Central Anatolia Region	Çatalhöyük Eskişehir Archaeological Museum Konya Archaeological Museum Gordion Museum Museum of Anatolian Civilizations

Eastern Anatolia Region	Kars Museum

Marmara Region	Bursa Archaeological Museum Great Palace Mosaic Museum Istanbul Archaeology Museums Kırklareli Museum Sadberk Hanım Museum Tekirdağ Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography

Mediterranean Region	Adana Archaeology Museum Alanya Archaeological Museum Antalya Museum Burdur Archaeological Museum Hatay Archaeology Museum Mersin Museum Misis Mosaic Museum Silifke Museum Tarsus Museum

Southeastern Anatolia Region	Adıyaman Archaeological Museum Diyarbakır Archaeological Museum Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology Şanlıurfa Museum Zeugma Mosaic Museum

Museums in Turkey

Aegean Region

Afyonkarahisar Archaeological Museum Atatürk's House (Şuhut) Aydın Archaeological Museum Bostanlı Open-air Archaeological Museum Çamlık Railway Museum İnciraltı Sea Museum İzmir Art and Sculpture Museum Izmir Ethnography Museum İzmir Toy Museum Archaeological Museum of Manisa Uşak Museum of Archaeology Victory Museum

Black Sea Region

Baksı Museum Çorum Archaeological Museum Hagia Sophia, Trabzon Trabzon Museum

Central Anatolia Region

Marmara Region

Bursa Archaeological Museum Kırklareli Museum Namık Kemal House Museum Rákóczi Museum Tekirdağ Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography Tofaş Museum of Cars and Anatolian Carriages For museums in İstanbul see Museums in Istanbul

Mediterranean Region

Adana Archaeology Museum Adana Cinema Museum Alanya Archaeological Museum Atatürk Museum Adana Ethnography Museum Antalya Museum Atatürk's House Museum (Antalya) Burdur Archaeological Museum Hatay Archaeology Museum Mersin Museum Mersin Atatürk Museum Mersin Naval Museum Misis Mosaic Museum Silifke Museum Tarsus Museum

Southeastern Anatolia Region

Ahmet Arif Literature Museum Library Diyarbakır Archaeological Museum Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology Şanlıurfa Museum

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