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The İstanbul University Rıdvan Çelikel Archaeological Museum stands within the Department of Archaeology of the Faculty of Letters on the Vezneciler campus of İstanbul University. It opened on 1 July 2019.

The collection is made up of archaeological works from different regions of Türkiye, reaching from the Neolithic to the Byzantine period. It holds material of the Anatolian civilisations in particular — Hittite, Phrygian, Urartian, Lydian, Persian — together with Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine works, and jewellery, coins, statues and other pieces from the various cultures of Anatolia.