Culture and art / Museum
Giresun Museum (Gogora Church)
Merkez, Giresun
A free museum in the 19th-century Gogora Church, displaying archaeology from the Bronze Age to Byzantium and Ottoman ethnography.
Its story
The museum building is the Greek Orthodox Gogora Church and was used as a church until the population exchange in 1924; the official museum page dates its construction to the 1850s–60s. The building, a prison between 1948 and 1967, was restored by the Ministry and opened as a museum in 1988. The collection includes terracotta, metal and glass works from the Bronze Age to Byzantium, amphorae, sarcophagi, Ottoman-period weapons, clothing, jewelry and local textiles. It can be toured together with the historic houses in Zeytinlik.
Key facts
- Hours
- Daily 08:00–17:00 (official museum page)
- Museum
- Since 1988
- Building
- 19th century, Gogora Church
- Admission
- Free
Trip purpose
- Free
- Rainy day
- Traveling with kids
Location
40.91944, 38.39389
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Source: Web derlemesi (doğrulanmalı): https://turkishmuseums.com/museum/detail/2053-giresun-muzesi/2053/4 | https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giresun_M%C3%BCzesi | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28136105