Guide
The Sille Time Museum is in a chapel. The building stands above the cemetery on the southwest side of the dam road in Sille and is also known as the Tepe or Little Church — a single-aisled chapel built of the local Sille stone, rectangular on an east-west axis, of roughly dressed rubble, with a semicircular apse at the east end that reads as a half-circle both inside and out.
Locally it is also called the Milk Church: the municipality records an account that non-Muslim mothers whose milk had dried up would come here seeking a cure.
Selçuklu municipality restored the chapel to its original form and opened it as the Time Museum. What is displayed is the instruments people have used to fix and measure time, from the Roman period through the Ottoman centuries to the republic: sundials, the quadrant board known as the rubu tahtası, astrolabes, pocket watches, wall and table clocks, almanacs and calendars.
