Culture and art / Museum
Uşak Archaeology Museum (Croesus Treasure)
Merkez, Uşak
A modern museum on the old station site displaying the Lydian-period Karun (Croesus) Treasure, brought back from abroad.
Its story
The Uşak Museum opened in 1970 and moved in 2018 to its new three-story building constructed on the site of the old railway station. The star of the collection is the Karun (Lydian) Treasure, illegally excavated in the 1960s from tumuli near Güre, taken to the USA and recovered in 1993 after a long legal battle. Alongside gold and silver jewelry and vessels dated to the Lydian period of the 7th-6th centuries BC, regional finds from the Bronze Age to the Roman period are displayed. The story of the treasure is one of the cases cited worldwide as an example in the return of cultural property.
Key facts
- Opened
- 1970; new building 2018
- Visiting
- Closed on Mondays (Ministry museum)
Trip purpose
- Rainy day
- Traveling with kids
Location
38.66514, 29.40732
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Source: Web derlemesi (doğrulanmalı): https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%C5%9Fak_Arkeoloji_M%C3%BCzesi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%C5%9Fak_Museum_of_Archaeology | https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karun_Hazinesi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karun_Treasure