Baran Aydın

Nearly 15,000 people have visited the Amasra Museum, which was reopened three months ago after a three-year restoration process in the northern province of Bartın's Amasra district. The museum displays artifacts that have been unearthed by coincidence during construction works or excavations for different purposes. 

The Amasra Museum, which has opened after a three-year restoration work with a cost of 3 million Turkish Liras, has become an international application center for archaeologists, engineers, architects and academics and an education center providing history and archaeology education for students.

The Amasra Museum, home to more than 3,000 archaeological and ethnographical artifacts from the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Genoese, Seljuk and Ottoman periods, reveals the northern province of Bartın's 5,000-year-old history. 

The Amasra district, where the museum is located, bears the name of Persian queen Amastris, who ruled the city after the Lydians.