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The Antalya Museum or Antalya Archaeological Museum (Turkish: Antalya Müzesi) is one of Turkey's largest museums, located in Muratpaşa, Antalya. It includes 13 exhibition halls and an open-air gallery. It covers an area of 7,000 m 2 (75,000 sq ft) and 5000 works of art are exhibited.
It was commissioned by Murat Pasha of Karaman (Turkish: Karaman Beyi Murat Paşa) in 1570 and is covered with a high dome upon a ten-corner frame, with the inscriptions on its inner walls running all through the internal façade in a ribbon while presenting the most beautiful example of the Turkish-Seljuk art of calligraphy.
Muratpaşa is a municipality and district of Antalya Province, Turkey. [2] Its area is 96 km 2, [3] and its population is 526,293 (2022). [1] The district covers part of the city centre of Antalya, and has a coastline of 20 km (12 mi). The Mediterranean Sea lies to the south of the district. Ümit Uysal is the mayor of Muratpaşa. [4]
The mosque was first built in 1230 [1] and fully reconstructed for the second time in 1373. The minaret is 38 metres (125 ft) high and free-standing, [3] built on a square stone base, with eight fluted sections [1] and has 90 steps to the top.
The Hittite Museum, which was established in the Mahmut Pasha Bedesten in Ankara in 1940, was restored and renovated and converted into "Museum of Anatolian Civilizations" in 1968. Today, there are 99 museum directorates attached to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism , 151 private museums in 36 provinces and 1,204 private collections.
Hadrian's Gate (Turkish: Üçkapılar, meaning "The Three Gates") is a memorial gate located in Antalya, Turkey, which was built in the name of the Roman emperor Hadrian, who visited the city in 130 CE. [1] It was later incorporated in the walls that surround the city and harbor, of which it is the only remaining entrance gate today. [2]
Nostalgic tram. A single-track 4.7 km (2.9 mi) long heritage tram line (or nostalgic tram; Turkish: Nostalji tramvay hatti) opened in 1999 with ex-Nuremberg tramcars. Trams runs from Antalya Museum along the main boulevard through the city center at Kale Kapısı, Hadrian's Gate, Karaalioglu Park, and ending on the way to Lara Plajı (Beach) to the east.
A tram system, opened in 1999, runs from Antalya Museum, and the Sheraton Voyager and Falez hotels, along the main boulevard through the city center at Kalekapisi, Hadrian's Gate, Karaalioglu Park, and ending at Talya Oteli. Trams depart on the hour and half-hour from the terminal (east and west), and reach Kalekapisi between 10 and 15 minutes ...