Tire Müzesi

About Tire Müzesi

Temporarily closed: the Ministry of Culture and Tourism lists Tire Museum as closed to visitors since 22 June 2020 for structural strengthening works, until the work is completed. Check before travelling. Tire Museum is the state museum of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Tire, with archaeology and ethnography halls and open-air displays in its gardens. The first museum in Tire was set up in a small dervish lodge commissioned by Halil Yahşi Bey, one of the commanders of Sultan Murad II. Registered by the Ministry of Education's Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums in 1946, the museum was housed in the Yahşi Bey Mosque from 1946 until 1971, when it moved to its present building. The Archaeology Hall shows finds dating from 3500 BC to AD 1100, including sculpture, tomb stelae, marble table legs, marble and terracotta sarcophagi, glass and bronze objects and terracotta figurines. The Ethnography Hall displays writing implements, Ottoman men's and women's clothing, hand-embroidered cradle covers and towels, European ceramics used in the Ottoman period, Çanakkale ware, paintings and carpets. Outside, the front garden holds marble capitals from the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods with sarcophagus fragments and terracotta jars, while the back garden displays Islamic-period gravestones in chronological order.