Information About Kars Museum
Kars Museum is the largest museum in Kars.
Kars, which has hosted many civilizations for thousands of years, was first established as a museum clerk in 1959. Later, with the increase in the number of works after archaeological excavations, Kümbet Mosque (Church of the Apostles) was turned into a museum. Modern Kars Museum, which was opened in 1981 with the need for a larger museum in 1978, is one of the important museums where today's archaeological, ethnographic and stone works are exhibited.
Archeology Hall
Paleolithic Artifacts
Paleolithic artifacts can be found in the hall on the ground floor of the museum. In 1971, the famous Turkish Archaeologist. Dr. Stone hand axes, flint, microliths, scrapers and cutting tools found in the excavations carried out by Kılıç Kökten in Kağızman are exhibited. Settled in the 13th millennium BC, the cave in Kagizman was one of the oldest settlements in Anatolia. In addition, a wrist bone belonging to dinosaurs that lived two million years ago at the end of the Ice Age is found in this section.
Old Bronze Works
The terracotta artifacts known as the black burnished tiles belonging to the Hurris who came to Anatolia from the Caucasus in the Old Bronze Age in 3 thousand BC were found in Ani Ören City and exhibited in the museum. Axes, needles, fibulos, rings, piercing tools and spindle whorls from the same period are also exhibited in this hall.
Urartian Period Works
Two bronze Urartian swords and a bronze war belt, bronze bracelets, agate beads and terracotta painted vases found in the Sarıkamış-Micingirt Village dating from the Urartians period, which established a kingdom in a large area from Lake Van to Lake Çıldır, are the most important examples of this hall. works are from.
coins
The coins exhibited in the museum belong to the periods of the Greeks, Romans, Parthians, Byzantine Empire, Anatolian Seljuk State and Ottoman Empire. Coins made of gold, silver, copper and lead are exhibited in chronological order.
Other Works
In addition to these artifacts, in this hall of the museum, there are many objects of interest to the visitors, many of the objects of the Roman, Byzantine, Late Christian Periods and Seljuks. There are also many artifacts made of stone. Among these works are the animal shapes and the mythological depiction of the Seljuk period stone, which has been animated with two lions in their arms. In addition, gravestones belonging to various civilizations are remarkable. Written inscriptions belonging to the Seljuk and Ottoman periods, most of which are thought to be architectural structures, carry the traces of the life of the museum to that day.
Ethnography Hall
Ethnographic artifacts exhibited on the first floor of the museum consist of local clothes from the Ottoman period in 18th and 19th centuries, kitchen utensils, carpet-rugs, weapons and manuscripts of the Holy Quran. There is also a very rich collection.
Ethnographic Articles
Carpets, rugs, saddlebags, horse sacks, farma carpets, pillow faces, prayer rugs and boilers made of copper and bronze, sinis, trays, bowls, pitchers, patches (small cauldron or ancillary cups) utensils such as colander basin, sahan, mortar and spoon, daggers with gold and silver embroidery, wedge and sword filaments, flintlock and bulk pistols, iron and bronze axes and gunpowder, hand and printed old book edicts (documents). written works such as newspapers, bags and writing sets; patterned tent rugs such as rugs, wrapped in yarns of different colors on the rods to form partitions within the tents, local caftan, cepken, three skirts, waist belt, head cover, breasts, torch, hair ties, shawl and socks. ; silver embroidered saddle set, camel paws, cane, stick, silver, whip, phaeton lanterns, silver engraved watches and silver brackets, silver amulets, silver plates, silver amber, oltu stone, coca coral, mother of pearl rosary and mouthpieces, hookah, candlesticks, lamps, samovars, milk set, sugar bowl, tongs, silver belts, silver bracelets, hills, necklaces and caps (kofik) consists of.
Museum Playground
The garden is on the side of the museum overlooking the main street; stone works depicting rams, sheep, lambs and horses used by various Turkish tribes in and around Kars, as well as inscriptions and architectural fragments from the Seljuks and Ottomans. On the northern side of the museum; There is the historical White Wagon, which was given to Kazim Karabekir Pasha by the Russians as a gesture of goodwill during the 1921 Kars Treaty. Kazım Karabekir used to work in this wagon at the time. He later left this car to the Kars province.
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