Guide
The Yalvaç Museum, in the Yalvaç district of Isparta, shows archaeological material. Building began in 1963 and was finished in 1965, and the museum opened to the public on 9 September 1966.
It was run by an officer until 1975 and by a directorate after that. As the number of visitors, Turkish and foreign, grew over the years, the museum was rearranged in 1998 to meet what was expected of it, and it opened again on 16 July 2000. It is today an important museum in the Lakes Region both for the richness of its collection and for the visitors it draws.
The archaeological section holds a great many works dated between 2500 BC and the third and fourth centuries AD: ceramics, figurines, statues, busts and glassware. Most of them were brought to light at Pisidian Antioch.
The museum also holds ethnographic examples of the crafts of the local cultures of the region. One hall is given to manuscripts and another to the work of contemporary painters, and low reliefs, sarcophagi and gravestones are displayed in the garden.
The museum stands in the centre of Yalvaç and is made up of a prehistory gallery, a classical hall, an ethnographic hall, a display under the arcade and the garden. It is open every day except Monday between 8.30 and 17.30.
According to figures from the Isparta culture and tourism directorate for 2010, the museum holds 26,255 items in all: 3,133 archaeological objects, 1,626 ethnographic ones, 20,738 coins, 91 seals, 16 manuscripts, 60 fossils and skeletons, and 591 medals, medallions and decorations.
