Museums:

The Castle Museum is located right in the center of the city and it’s a nice museum filled with interesting information about the Turkish war of independence and the people that fought in it. It is quite good to visit and worth taking the time to read the information, which is also in English.



The Gaziantep Glass museum

In my opinion not very interesting and the price is 4 liras in comparison with most museums where it’s only one lira. It consists of a couple of rooms with historic artifacts and the rest are actually shops. There is also a little restaurant inside, so you get the feeling it’s not a museum at all, but just a shop where you pay entrance… I don’t recommend visiting it.


The kitchen museum

A very nice idea and worth visiting, in my opinion not for the things inside it but for the information provided and the movie offered about preparing traditional Gaziantep food and about the founder of the museum, who had a very hard life in his childhood but made this museum as a tribute to this city, its food and for his mother. I recommend going to visit it.


Beyaz Han City museum

A very nice museum that can be visited every day and that tells the story of the city, its history, its economy, about the industry here, the architecture, the traditional crafts practiced here and any other relevant information one might want to know about the city. There is an English translation, and a lot of information, meaning you will spend at least one hour visiting it. The information is very complete and accompanied by movies and artifacts.


The Mosaic museum

Today in the Zeugma Mosaics Museum 500 meter square-wide mosaics, 35 mosaic panels as well as the famous 1, 50 cm-long bronze Mars and Aphrodite statutes are in display. The museum is proudly the second biggest mosaic museum of the world. Its artifacts come from the ancient Roman city of Zeugma.

The museum, which covers a 30,000 square-meter closed place, includes conference halls and other social facilities. The museum’s construction started in April 2008, and it opened to the public early in 2011.

Take care / have fun

Dan