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Bergama Archaeological & Ethnographic Museum
The town museum opened in 1936, bringing finds from the Acropolis, Asklepion, Red Basilica, and the Allianoi rescue excavations into archaeological and ethnographic galleries.
Planned by Bruno Meyer and Harold Hanson, the building is a transverse courtyard with an exhibition hall behind it and opened to visitors on 30 October 1936. The galleries set finds from Pitane, Myrina, and Gryneion beside Bronze Age vessels, Pergamene sigillata, and sculpture rescued from Allianoi. The ethnographic rooms tell Bergama’s carpets, copperware, and domestic life under the same roof.
Why visit
To complete, in one hall, the portable works that belong to the terraces, healing courtyard, and brick sanctuary you see outdoors.
Begin in the courtyard, then the floor mosaics, then the sarcophagus reliefs, and leave the carpet room for last.
