Antalya Muzesi

Antalya has two major attractions: beaches and history. After our visits to historical sites like Perge, Side, Aspendos, Myra etc, it was logical to visit the Antalya museum. The museum is full of archeological treasures excavated from the above mentioned sites. With its halls of emperors and gods and goddesses, the museum offers, especially for young children, a great opportunity of actually seeing the Ancient Greek history in front of them. Highly recommended.

On piece of advice: if you are visiting Turkey and planning to visit museums then buy the TL 500 worth of the museum card. It gives you access to all the museums.

Strongly recommend 1st to visit ancient and historical places before going to museum, I visited just Perga so i could connect and make the “story” of it, for the rest of the things in the museum the experience wasn’t the same tho it was still nice to see them. Ticket was cheap, you buy it at the museum. 90 Turkish lira (€4-5) well done for that.

Small museum easily accessible by tram or bus. The museum is home to many incredible statues from as far back as the 2nd Century. there is an outdoor area with more statues too. The sarcophagi on display are really interesting. There were a few signs in English- not many,
Entry was 200lira and if you want an audio guide thats another 75lira.'
We spent 1- 1.5 hrs there as it's not overly big.
There is a little cafe and gift shop too.

An amazing number of statues from Perge make this worth seeing, and the huge number of sarcophagi. It was interesting to go to Perge later in the week to see where they'd all come from.
Lots of very interesting chickens and peacocks in the garden were a nice surprise!

The Archaeological Museum of Antalya is one of the most important museums in Turkey and covers periods from prehistory to the 19th century. It is particularly renowned for its exceptional collection of ancient sculptures, many of which come from the archaeological site of Pergé. Do not miss this visit !!!
Especially since the museum, of reasonable size, can be discovered in just 1 to 2 hours!

Poor experience at Antalya Museum. I paid for the ticket via credit card and received my usual confirmation that the transaction had gone through (I’ve signed up to receive these from my bank). The ticket agent insisted it had not been processed and wanted me to pay again even though I showed him my message etc. I know this is not his fault personally but for the museum this is pretty bad - to try to process two charges for a ticket! Left pretty disappointed in the whole incident.

If you are planning to spend the day on Konyaaltı beach factor in Antalya musuem into your trip. The museum is just across the road opposite the old fashioned and new tram stops.
The building is unassuming from the outside, and initially we were a little bit underwhelmed by the artefacts on display. Don’t be fooled or put off, it’s deceptive. The musuem gets better and better as you go through. In fact it’s probably one of the best medium sized museums we’ve ever visited! The ancient classical Greek and Roman statues of the Gods and Goddesses are magnificent, huge and tower over you. The displays give you a real sense of their grandeur and splendour. The staff were friendly and there are lockers near the entrance were you can leave your bags. We left pretty impressed by what we saw. It was definitely worth a visit.

This is a fine museum but almost exclusively features Roman artefacts from the region. If you are looking for neolithic or Byzantine, there are only a few small displays. There are really only 7 halls, not 13 as advertised--it's not a very big place. If you are in Antalya already, it might be worth a visit, but I regret going out of my way to go.

This museum should be called Perge museum since most of the artifacts are from excavations in Perge. The collection of the museum is superb, it exceeds ancient Greek, Hellenistic and Roman collections of the leading world museums. Really impressive.
The organization/curatorship is old school and plain boring (you feel at times as if you are reading excerpts from some archeological textbook), and at times, explanations are missing but the redeeming quality is the quality of the exhibition itself.

My favorite part of the exhibit was seeing the statues and artifacts taken from the city of Perge. I would highly recommend going to Perge prior to the museum and to have a guide for both.

That ties a complete experience together and will enhance your takeaway from both places.