MARDİN MUSEUM

Mardin Head 1st Cumhuriyet Caddesi Ataturk statue is the Field. Adjacent to the eastern side of the building into a museum of the Virgin Mary Church, according to the inscription on the portal of the closed buildings, Patriarch of Antioch in 1895 by the Syriac Catholic Patriarch İgnatios Behnam Banni as has been done. Later, the military garrison, M.S.P. Provincial organization, cooperative building, health and police station is used as.

Syriac Catholic Foundation purchased the building from the Ministry of Culture has decided to restore it in 1988 and in 1995 the building was opened to serve as a museum. So far from the old museum Artuklu Sultan by Sultan Jesus, 14 century was beginning to show activity in the Zinciriye Medresesi.

New museum buildings have been completely cut from the limestone rock. The inner and outer vault, arches, railing and column headers are available in the unique decorations.


Museum is three storeys:

On the first floor; counseling location, conference, exhibition and recreational facilities,

Second floor; ethnography exhibition hall, library and work repositories;

Issued on the third floor, some work in the excavation of Mound Girnevas, purchased the winning museum and the archaeological work in the administrative section of the exhibition includes the hall.

Museum of the work; BC 4000, BC 7. century until the period of work. Archaeological Old Bronze, Assyrian, Urartu, Greek, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Grand Seljuk, and Ottoman era Artuk inhabitants of tablets, cylinder and stamp seals, cult containers, figurine, jewelry, keramikler, gold, silver and copper coins, tear bottle and candle displays. 

In the ethnography hall and around Mardin, especially in the District Midyat silver processing specific examples of the elite as necklaces, earrings, bracelet, bangle, pediment, hair discrimination, as well as old clothes, swords, coffee (mırra) sets, bath goods, prayer beads and heating equipment and copper goods are exhibited, too. 

08.00-17.00 hours every day except Monday is open to visitors.