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Prison 1811 Lincoln County Museum & Old Jail: Wiscasset: Maine: United States Jail Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary: Petros: Tennessee: United States State Prison Abashiri Prison Museum: Abashiri: Hokkaido: Japan Prison The only prison museum in Japan. [1] Alcatraz Island: San Francisco Bay Area: California: United States Prison Ancienne ...
The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations (Turkish: Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi) is located on the south side of Ankara Castle in the Atpazarı area in Ankara, Turkey. It consists of the old Ottoman Mahmut Paşa bazaar storage building, and the Kurşunlu Han .
Sinop Fortress Prison (Turkish: Sinop Kale Cezaevi) was a state prison situated in the inside of the Sinop Fortress in Sinop, Turkey.As one of the oldest prisons of Turkey, it was established in 1887 within the inner fortress of the centuries-old fortification located on the northwestern part of Cape Sinop.
The history of Anatolia (often referred to in historical sources as Asia Minor) can be roughly subdivided into: Prehistory of Anatolia (up to the end of the 3rd millennium BCE), Ancient Anatolia (including Hattian, Hittite and post-Hittite periods), Classical Anatolia (including Achaemenid, Hellenistic and Roman periods), Byzantine Anatolia (later overlapping, since the 11th century, with the ...
Erimtan Museum was established in 2015 by a private society named "Cultural Heritage Collectors’ Society" (Turkish: Kültür Varlıkları Koleksiyoncular Derneği), which was founded in 1996. The museum was named after the founder of the society Yüksel Erimtan, an engineer and an archaeology enthusiast, who endowed his private collection to ...
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.
At the southernmost tip of Argentina's Patagonia sits 'the prison of the end of the world.' The country banished prisoners here in the early 1900s to colonize the region.
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.