The Turkish city of Alanya has a rich history, and this is confirmed by the exposition of the town Museum. The Museum was built in 1967, but the number of exhibits in it regularly increases, and the collection of artefacts is constantly updated. On the territory of the Turkish state is constantly being excavated, therefore, a large number of exhibits are waiting to get into the permanent exhibition. Museum staff often travel to historic sites to assess the findings. Quite often the specialists of the Museum cooperated with foreign archaeologists for a more thorough analysis of the priceless and the historically significant things.

The Museum building has an unusual structure and consists of one external and fourteen internal exhibition halls. The exposition of the Museum is a collection of artifacts such historical periods as Phrygian, Lydian, Greek and Byzantine. At the entrance to the Museum in a huge shop Windows displays the architectural monuments of the bronze age, such States as Phrygia, Urartu, Lydia, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece and Byzantium. In the great hall of the Museum of Byzantine and Roman wares from baked clay, glass, bronze and marble, the writing on the language of the Principality of Caramanico, mosaic 7-5 centuries BC

In the hall of archaeology is the oldest exhibit of the Archaeological Museum - a stone with an inscription in the language of the Phoenicians, Dating back to 625 BC No less historically valuable finds of the Museum of Alanya are funerary stele made in the first century BC, and fragments of ancient inscriptions.

The most valuable exhibit of the Archaeological Museum – statue of Hercules, the hero of ancient myths and legends, well-known to this day. It was made of bronze in the second century BC and today is in a separate room. Sculpture height 51, 5 centimeters was discovered in 1967 in the mountain village Asartepe, located in the North-East of Alanya. Historians believe that the statue was brought here by the pirates prevailed in the mountainous Cilicia, as a trophy with robbed them of a ship or of any locality. The sculpture is very impressive as the skill of the author who produced it. Very realistic made the muscles of the body, plausibly depicts the hair and beard of a man, his face is so lively expression that surprises even the most experienced viewer. Looking at the sculpture of Hercules, you can feel his fatigue from advanced exploits and the satisfaction of another victory, to feel its remarkable strength.

The highlight of the archaeological Museum of Alanya is an extensive exposition of the so-called receptacles for ashes. These finds belong to the Byzantine and Roman periods, they are made in the form of a sarcophagus, and their covers are in the shape of the saddle. On the wide walls of blood vessels caused various drawings, flora garlands, figures rider, somewhere between the patterns visible images of male and female persons, and on some vessels even found Greek inscriptions. The vessels placed in the Museum building and in the garden. They are made of limestone, in large number available in Alanya, and are associated with existed here in ancient times the custom of burial. In rocks of this area is very difficult to dig up the earth, so the locals burned the body of the deceased, and his ashes were placed in special vessels. The burning of the deceased was a sign of respect for him, besides this ritual ensured the immortality of not only the deceased, but to all his friends.

Among the exhibits of the Museum has a large collection of coins which are artifacts of the ancient Greek period, Byzantine, Roman, Ottoman and Seljuk empires; there are coins of the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey. The Museum displays interesting Armory collection Ottoman era (bow, guns, arrows, swords). One of the highlights of the Museum is a handwritten copy of the Holy Koran.

Ethnographic artifacts of the era of the Ottomans and Seljuks devoted the second half of the Museum, it is interesting to see part of the old houses of those times, recreated according to the results of the excavations in and around Alanya. Archaeologists had to disassemble the structure into its individual parts, in order to take them to the Museum and collect on the territory of the Museum in accordance with the drawings.

In the Museum building cannot accommodate all the exhibits, so some of them are exhibited in the garden. Here are exhibited vintage clothes, carpets of nomads, ancient weapons, jewelry, original embroidery and many other examples of the local culture, collected at different times in the region. A collection of stone products Byzantine, Roman and Islamic periods. Here you can appreciate the wonderful local art of woodcarving, admire the handmade carpets that adorned the earlier homes of the Turks. In the courtyard of the Museum recreated a press for pressing grapes and other agricultural machinery.