Antalya Ethnographic Museum
Collection of Ottoman carpets, weapons, and rare Seljuk tiles across two historic mansions in the old town.
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This guide to the Antalya Ethnographic Museum moves through two Ottoman-era mansions in Kaleici built on old Roman walls, tracing how each civilization inside them repurposed what came before, including Seljuk-era tiles stripped from the Roman theatre at Aspendos. You'll hear about the Ottoman swords, rifles, and calligraphy in the Upper Mansion, and about the geometric carpets still woven in the village of Dosemealti, shown alongside the looms that made them. It ends in the garden, among Ottoman gravestones and old cannons scattered under the trees.
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