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No visit to Sagalassos would be complete in faith at the Archaeological Museum at Burdur, the metropolis. Major finds from Sagalassos are housed during this museum which is found a brief drive from the positioning. The museum was built around the Ottoman-era Pirkulzade Library (built in 1823) and features a sculpture garden and spacious exhibit halls.
 
 
In 2006, it absolutely was renovated and enlarged to accommodate the various sculptural pieces found at Sagalassos. In 2008, it absolutely was awarded a special prize at the EU Museum of the Year Award. In summer 2009, the monumental portrait heads of Hadrian and Antoninus, found during the 2007/2008 excavations, were installed within the museum.
 
Burdur Archaeology Museum of Turkey

Tourism in the Archaeological Museum at Burdur


The ancient city of Kibyra is found near the trendy town of Gölhisar, 106 km southwest of Burdur. it had been the capital of a tetrapolis (with Oinoanda, Balbura and Bubon) before the world was divided between the Roman provinces of Lycia and Phrygia.

 

This was a vital iron-working area. All the finds collected seem to suggest that the migratory fighter games and wild creature fights organized in Anatolia were both popular and frequent in Kibera.
 


Marble statues in the Archaeological Museum at Burdur


There are marble statues from Cremna. Like Sagalasos, Cremna was set high within the Taurus mountains. For a protracted time a stronghold of Hellenised Pisidians, Cremna was refounded as a veteran colony by the emperor Augustus. From the age of Hadrian until the first third century AD the colony enjoyed a boom publically buildings whose remains still adorn the positioning.

 

Disaster struck within the late third century when Cremna became a centre for a regional insurrection against Roman rule. Roman forces staged a significant siege of town and recaptured it in AD 278. A bishopric in Late Antiquity, Cremna was abandoned within the sixth or seventh century. Burdur Archaeology Museum is located at the junction of the cities of Antalya, Isparta, and Izmir, Denizli, and Muğla and is the fair venue of the historical findings found in these provinces.

 

The museum is supplied with an ancient city exploration system with a kiosk controlled cylindrical screen enabling you to determine the town plan of ancient civilizations and to look at them from various perspectives. Exhibiting valuable, precious, and ancient artifacts of Anatolia and comprising several display halls, the Kibyra and Kremna Galeries, and a garden, Burdur Archaeology Museum is at your assistance.