The Alanya Archeology Museum

The Alanya Archeology Museum was opened in 1967 with the works of the Bronze Age, Urartu, Phrygian and Lydian periods brought from the Ankara Anatolian Civilizations Museum and the works collected from the environment to date. In the following years, the museum has expanded and enriched with the artefacts from the excavations in the region or brought to the museum in various ways. The museum has departments of archeology and ethnography. The earliest dated work exhibited in the archeology section around Alanya is a stone inscription in the Phoenician language dating back to 625 before Christ. The most famous work of the museum is the statue of Herakles, which has a dramatic story in mythology. The bronze cast Heracles Statue, dated to the 2nd century after Christ, is displayed in a separate hall.