Guide
The museum is entered by a door on the east side. From there a stone-paved court, understood to have been the second tepidarium of the baths, leads out into a large garden.
Around that court and within the garden stand the sarcophagi, columns, busts, torsos, inscriptions, statues, statue bases, capitals, friezes, reliefs and stelae found in the excavations at Side.
The museum garden was in fact the courts of the gymnasium and palaestra of the Roman baths. Their floors are laid with pieces of marble, and the most important work within them is the series of friezes on the north wall of the court, showing the mythological stories of Poseidon, god of the seas, in which the relationships of the gods and goddesses with nature are depicted.
