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Troy Museum
The award-winning Troy Museum will welcome you in the entrance of Troy ruins. The fact that the height of the museum building is equal to the height of the ancient city of Troy prior to the excavation allows Troy to be kept alive here with all the details. So that you will feel like travelling inside of a mound. Starting from the entrance ramp, you will follow the traces of Troy with a story divided into seven chapters from the ground floor; Troas Region Archaeology, Troy Bronze Age, Iliad Epic and Trojan War, Troas and Ilion in the Ancient Period, Eastern Roman and Ottoman Period, Archaeology History.
When visitors follow a story divided into seven topics: The Archaeology of the Troas Region is the Bronze Age of Troy, the Epic of the Iliad and the Troy War, the Troas and Ilion in the Ancient Period, the Eastern Roman and Ottoman Period, the History of Archeology, and the Traces of Troy.
Visitors can climb to each exhibition floor via the ramp. In the niches on the walls of the ramp, different layers of Troy are described with tombstones, large sculptures, stage animations, and large size photographs. In the circulation band, which is the entrance area of the museum, the science of archeology, archaeological and archaeometric dating methods, terms such as "neolithic, chalcolithic, bronze age, iron age, mound, restoration, conservation" are explained through diagrams, drawings, texts and interactive methods in order to provide an orientation to the visitor before the ongoing exhibition floors.