Çanakkale Archaeological Museum () was a museum in
Çanakkale
Çanakkale is a city and seaport in Turkey on the southern shore of the Dardanelles at their narrowest point. It is the seat of Çanakkale Province and Çanakkale District.Troy Museum ( or ''Truva Müzesi''), close to the excavation site of the
ancient Greek
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city of
Troy
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. The museum site is now home to the Mehmet Akif Ersoy Provincial Public Library.
Çanakkale was situated on the
Anatolia
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n side of the
Dardanelles Strait
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. It is close to famous
Troy
Troy (/; ; ) or Ilion (; ) was an ancient city located in present-day Hisarlik, Turkey. It is best known as the setting for the Greek mythology, Greek myth of the Trojan War. The archaeological site is open to the public as a tourist destina ...
World War I
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is known as ''Çanakkale Savaşı'' in Turkish.
In 1960, an abandoned church was opened as a museum. In 1984, the museum moved to 100. yıl street of the city at .
The following text was found to be correct for the Troy Museum: The main items in the exhibition halls are artifacts from various ruins around Çanakkele such as a Troia,
Assos
Assos (; , ) was an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek city near today's Behramkale () or Behram for short, which most people still call by its ancient name of Assos. It is located on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast in the Ayvacık, Çanakkale, Ayvac ...
, Apollon, Smintheion,
Tenedos
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and
Alexandria Troas
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. Some of the items are marble sculptures,
stele
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s, illumination gadgets, terracota and bronze kitchenware, glassware and ornaments. A colored sarcophagus from the
Achaemenid Empire
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Hadrian
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File:Altıkulaç_Sarcophagus_hunting_scene_(hunter_detail_with_tiara).jpg, Altıkulaç Sarcophagus, early 4th century BCE.
File:Altıkulaç_Sarcophagus_Now_in_Troy_Museum_8091.jpg, Altıkulaç Sarcophagus, early 4th century BCE.
File:Polyxena_side_0057.jpg, Polyxena Sarcophagus
File:Polyxena_side_0059,_the_actual_kill.jpg, Polyxena Sarcophagus
File:Polyxena_Sarcophagus_Now_in_Troy_Museum_7938.jpg, Polyxena Sarcophagus
File:Hoplites_on_the_Polyxena_sarcophagus.jpg, Polyxena Sarcophagus
File:Late Hellenistic nude Aphrodite with snakes entwined around her left arm and left leg (symbol of Asklepios), found in the Tumulus of Dardanos, 2nd century B.C., Canakkale Archaeological Museum, Troy (Ilion), Turkey (7446302400).jpg, Statue of
Aphrodite
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