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Mardin Museum
Housed in the 1895 former Syriac Catholic Patriarchate overlooking Republic Square, presenting Upper Mesopotamia’s archaeological and ethnographic heritage.
Rising beside Republic Square, this multi-tiered cut-stone building was constructed in 1895 as the Syriac Catholic Patriarchate before being restored as the Mardin Museum. Galleries arranged around arcaded stone courtyards display Bronze Age, Assyrian, Urartian, Roman, Byzantine, and Artuqid finds from Girnavaz, Dara, and surrounding mounds. Ethnographic rooms highlight Mardin’s silver filigree craft, stone carving traditions, and domestic culture.
Why visit
To experience both nineteenth-century monumental stone patriarchate architecture and millennia of Mesopotamian archaeology under one roof.
Start on the upper open stone arcade overlooking Republic Square and the plain, then work your way through the galleries floor by floor.
