Also called 'Sakarya Museum', is situated just across from the train station and occupies an area of about 1290 sq.meters/1543 sq.yards. At the beginning, the building was built as a mansion for a local wealthy family in three storeys where Atatürk met his mother and stayed there for 5 days in 1922.

Having been damaged by an earthquake in 1967, the building was rebuilt by the Ministry of Culture and Tourisn according to the original architecture and opened as a museum in 1983.

Architectural artifacts, grave-stones, altars, inscriptions, provision jars of terracotta and column bases found within the territory of the Province of Sakarya dating to the Roman and Byzantine eras are displayed in the courtyard, and, in the exhibition hall, there are pre-historic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman archaeological and ethnographical findings can be seen.

The museum can be visited every day except Mondays between 08:00 - 12:00 and 13:00 - 17:00 Hrs.
Phone: +90 (0264) 2773668 ; Fax: +90 (0264) 2742515

Additional contact address for ADAPAZARI (SAKARYA)

: 12 Sep 2006/02:30 GMT