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The building of the Mersin Museum with ancient columns in its forecourt
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, resized

Culture · Mersin coast: Kızkalesi & Silifke · Yenişehir

Mersin Museum

Mersin Müzesi

The city museum of Mersin, opened in a new building in 2017, which tells the story of ancient Cilicia from the first villages to the Roman period and beyond.

  • Open now Closes 17:00 · last entry 16:30
  • Visit ~1–1.5 h
  • Museum Pass

Directions See it on the Mersin coast: Kızkalesi & Silifke map

Build a day-by-day plan with closing-day warnings and ticket totals.

What to see

The route starts with a "time tunnel" and continues with fossils, the Neolithic of Yumuktepe and Gözlükule, the Bronze and Iron Ages, Roman jewellery and a reconstructed olive-oil workshop, and a ship's cargo of amphorae. Later rooms cover finds from Yumuktepe and from the ancient cities of Soli-Pompeiopolis and Elaiussa-Sebaste, and ethnography including the Sarıkeçili nomads.

One to one and a half hours.

The Ministry page shows the museum as open but prints no price.

Getting there

On Adnan Menderes Bulvarı on the seafront of Mersin city. From Kızkalesi it is about 54 km in a straight line, along the coast road.

Transport lines are general directions, not checked against the operator's timetable.

Open in OpenStreetMap See it on the Mersin coast: Kızkalesi & Silifke map

Nearby

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Where to stay nearby

ilçemde shows no Ministry-licensed count for mersin/yenisehir; its page still lists hotels and guesthouses in the district.

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Pharmacies on duty tonight in mersin/yenisehir ↗ The list changes every day; on-duty pharmacies stay open when the others are closed.

About this page

Location: OpenStreetMap — Mersin Arkeoloji Müzesi (way/830804707; Nominatim, 01.10.2026). Ticket, hours and closing days: only from the operator's own pages; anything we could not confirm there is marked “Not verified”. Last checked 30 Sep 2026.