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Bodrum Castle in 2020. In 1962 the Turkish Government decided to turn the castle into a museum for the underwater discoveries of ancient shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea. This has become the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology, [6] with a collection of amphoras, ancient glass, bronze, clay, and iron items. It is the biggest museum of its kind ...
The Museum of Innocence; Sakıp Sabancı Museum; Sadberk Hanım Museum; Rahmi M. Koç Museum; Rezan Has Museum; Istanbul Military Museum; SALT (institution) Pera Museum; SantralIstanbul; Miniatürk; Jewish Museum of Turkey; Tiled Kiosk; İstanbul Toy Museum; Istanbul Postal Museum; Adam Mickiewicz Museum, Istanbul; Galatasaray Museum; Istanbul ...
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus [a] (Ancient Greek: Μαυσωλεῖον τῆς Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ; Turkish: Halikarnas Mozolesi) was a tomb built between 353 and 351 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, an Anatolian from Caria and a satrap in the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria.
Bodrum Maritime Museum is another museum dedicated to the classification, exhibition, restoration, conservation, storage, and safekeeping of historical documents, works, and objects that are important to the city's maritime history. [31] Bodrum City Museum is a minor museum in the city center that presents the general history of the Bodrum ...
Archaeological park Theatre at Halicarnassus in Bodrum, with the Bodrum Castle seen in the background, 2015. The Theatre at Halicarnassus , [ 1 ] also known as Bodrum Antique Theatre [ 2 ] [ 3 ] ( Turkish : Bodrum Antik Tiyatrosu , usually shortened as Antik Tiyatro ), is a 4th-century BC [ 4 ] Greco-Roman theatre located in Bodrum , Turkey . [ 1 ]
Upon its 100th anniversary in 1991, the museum received the European Council Museum Award, particularly for the renovations made to the lower floor halls in the main building and the new displays in the other buildings. The Museum of the Ancient Orient was commissioned by Osman Hamdi Bey in 1883 as a fine arts school. Then it was reorganised as ...
Bodrumkale is a castle ruin in Osmaniye Province, Turkey. It is situated on a hill, about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) away from Osmaniye. The castle is to the northeast of the ancient city of Castabala. In medieval times it controlled the road from Central Anatolia to the Mediterranean coast.
Yassi Ada is an island off the coast of Bodrum, Turkey. [1] This area of the Mediterranean Sea is prone to strong winds, making a safe journey around the island difficult. The island could be called a ships' graveyard, on account of the number of wrecked ships off its southeastern tip.