Afyonkarahisar Archaeological Museum

The Afyonkarahisar Archaeological Museum, additionally known as the Afyon Museum, is an archaeological museum in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. It famous a huge sort of artifacts from the Copper Age, Bronze Age and the civilizations of Hittites, Phrygians, Ancient Greece and the Byzantine Empire. The initiative to set up a museum in Afyonkarahisar and to record the province's chronicle is going again to 1928 whilst within the early years of the Republic research were done first of all by the "Lovers of Artifacts Society" and later via the "Community Center".

Following the efforts led via the society's president Suleyman Hilmi, a instructor, and his colleague Oluz, artifacts collected from diverse archaeological websites have been stored up within the vacant Gedik Ahmed Pasha Madrasa. As the number of objects grew up, the idea emerged for the status quo of a museum. In 1931, the museum become founded in the form of an workplace, and Süleyman Hilmi become appointed as its supervisor. In 1933, the museum become opened, and he became its first director. Under his leadership, it then rose up to the popularity of a nearby museum. With the guide of the Community Center, he accrued archaeological artifacts from the provinces Uzak, Burdur, Isparta and Ayden, as well as ethnographical objects from the provinces of Aydin and Kütahya for the museum.