Afyonkarahisar Archaeological Museum

The Afyonkarahisar Archaeological Museum (Turkish: Afyonkarahisar Arkeoloji Müzesi), also known as the Afyon Museum, is an archaeological museum in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. It exhibits a wide variety of artifacts from the Copper Age, Bronze Age and the civilizations of Hittites, Phrygians, Ancient Greece and the Byzantine Empire. Background Museum's backyard The initiative to establish a museum in Afyonkarahisar and to record the province's chronicle goes back to 1928 when in the early years of the Republic studies were carried out initially by the "Lovers of Artifacts Society" ( Ottoman Turkish : Âsar-ı Atika Muhibleri Cemiyeti ) and later by the "Community Center" ( Turkish : Halkevi ). Following the efforts led by the society's president Süleyman Hilmi (Gönçer), a teacher, and his colleague Oğuz (Günel), artifacts collected from various archaeological sites were stored up in the vacant Gedik Ahmed Pasha Madrasa.