Anadolu Medeniyetleri Muzesi

Museum of Anatolian Civilizations (tour. Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations) is one of the richest museums in the world [source not specified 2336 days], the main historical museum of Turkey, located in its capital - Ankara.

The museum was founded in 1921, in the following years it quickly expanded under the influence of Kemal Atatürk, the first president of Turkey who wanted to create a Hittite museum in Ankara, and contributed to the acquisition of new buildings for the museum, as well as the fact that the museum received many exhibits from the surrounding areas where the remains of the ancient Hittite cities are preserved. The museum was also filled with exhibits of other ancient civilizations that were discovered in Turkey.

Currently, the museum contains collections from the Neolithic, Bronze Age, civilizations of Assyria and Urartu, the Hittites and Phrygians, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire.