Museum· Selçuk, İzmir

Ephesus Archaeological Museum

Selçuk Efes Müzesi

Built1964

Ephesus Archaeological Museum is a museum in Selçuk, İzmir; Where every fragment dug from Ephesus since 1929 is laid out — the key to reading the ruins down the road.

Selçuk Efes Müzesi
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Where every fragment dug from Ephesus since 1929 is laid out — the key to reading the ruins down the road.

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Every fragment dug from Ephesus since 1929 lands here, in two adjoining halls a five-minute walk from the ruins. The Artemis statues, the bronze athlete from the Harbour Gymnasium, the Parthian-monument frieze — none of them are at the site itself. Read this museum first; the columns down the road make sense afterwards.

Did you know

  • The 'Beautiful Artemis' statue was discovered with her ritual headdress intact in 1956.
  • The bronze athlete was reassembled from 224 fragments after 30 years of restoration.
  • The Eros riding a dolphin found here is the only intact Roman version of the type.

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