Information About Çankırı Museum
In Çankırı, where various nations and civilizations lived, the first steps were taken for the establishment of the museum by collecting some stone, ceramic, bronze and ethnographic works from the environment and storing them in the old Halkevi building, and after the studies initiated on the need for a museum for their preservation and exhibition. In 1972, the Çankırı Museum started its activities with the exhibition of existing works in a section of the Public Education Building.
Our museum, which continued its works in this building until 1976, was closed to visit and turned into a warehouse due to the construction of a new building and it continued its office activities in a class of Çankırı High School. The museum, which was re-opened on the second floor of the 100th Year Cultural Center on August 23, 1981, welcomes visitors in the old courthouse, which has been restored since 2017.
The civilizations that lived in different parts of Anatolia were also represented in our region. In parallel to this, in our museum, the Old Bronze Age (3000-2500 BC), Hittite Age (2000-1200 BC), Phrygians (first half of the first millennium BC), Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and the works of the Ottoman Period were exhibited and introduced.
There are 19.939 pieces of artifacts belonging to various periods in the museum. Of these works, 2,485 are archaeological, 1,283 are ethnographic and 16,171 are coins. Fossils dating back 8 million years have been found in the excavations carried out since 1997 in the Çorakyerler District of Çankırı. Elephant, rhinoceros, sheep, goats, pigs, giraffes, deer and ancestral fossils of primates are exhibited in the Çankırı Museum. With a good introduction, Çorakyerler will occupy an important place in the tourism potential of both our country and Çankırı.
Archaeological works; environmental research, procurement, donation and the judiciary consists of works gained through the channel. Ethnographic artifacts are also obtained through donations. The Museum is located on the 2nd floor of the Cultural Center and has two exhibition halls, warehouses and offices.
In the archeology department, works belonging to Old Bronze, Hittite, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods and coins of various civilizations are exhibited. Among the works on display are terracotta vessels, bones, glass, beads, bronze tools and ornaments, glass tear and fragrance bottles, medical instruments, spindle whorls, oil lamps, needles, ring eyebrows and various sculpture pieces.
The works in the ethnography section include various fabrics, hand embroidery, clothes, saddlebags, rugs and sacks, crafts, bowls, pitchers, shells and basins, swords, daggers, wedges and guns and guns related to the art of copper. and axes, ax, halberd, arrow and bows, manuscript books, icazet and Quran, writing sets, carving and inlaid drawers, mouthpieces and clogs, local bindalli, trietek, fermane, cepken, oil, bundle, fez dunes, apron ties, girdles, shoemakers, socks and gloves, enameled silver watches and shackles, bracelets, belts and belt buckles and works reflecting different examples of art are exhibited.
In the middle section of the hall, there is a historical cart bearing ammunition between İnebolu, Kastamonu, Çankırı and Ankara during the War of Independence. The gaps on the exterior of the building and the statues of lion statues belonging to the Hittite Period, statues of tombs, milestones, tomb stones, architectural fragments, column pedestals and headings, Latin and Greek inscriptions with Ottoman tombstones and lion relief pits.
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22/07/2019 
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