museum of anatolian civilisation

This museum won best museum
of europe and is surrounded by gardens, outdoor sculptures, walking paths, and whilst we were there many families, children enjoying the exhibitions. It is huge and probably needs a full day not the few hours we had to explore the ancient scrolls, tiles, statues, jewellery and re created homes of ancient civilisations ( entry via a roof to a windowless cottage where loved ones were also buried with them !). We found the artefacts used in death, preparation for burial and funerals particularly interesting and elaborate! Whilst there I had to go find a guard as a “museum cat” got stuck under a roman emperor statue - i communicated in a series of distressed meows and gesticulating movements to get the cat rescued due to our language barrier! phew! i thought of mike.Read more