Discover History: Konya Ereğli Museum

The Ereğli Museum is an archaeological and ethnographic museum located in the Ereğli district of Konya. 

The museum was originally established in 1967 as a subunit of the Konya Archaeological Museum. In 1978, it moved to its own building and was re-established as an independent museum. The museum underwent a reorganization in 2005.

The Ereğli Museum has two large exhibition halls, antiquities warehouses, and marble rooms. The showcases of archaeological artifacts hall exhibit artifacts from the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Hittite, Phrygian, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. The museum also houses mammoth skeletal fragments unearthed from the area's rich sand quarries.