History & Arts Museum

Very large complex with many museums inside in addition of a library. Archaeological museum is fantastic. Highly recommended. The entrance is from the main street to whole complex. You can use müzekart if you are a resident of Türkiye. Inside there is a café as well and the park is nice to roam around. It was quite on Saturday morning.

The best museum in İzmir! It’s large, well-curated, and full of fascinating artifacts from ancient times. The exhibitions are spacious and beautifully arranged, covering various periods of the region's rich history. A must-visit for anyone interested in archaeology and culture. You can easily spend a couple of hours here—highly recommended!

Self service museum! Even the museum shop is a vending machine 👍 tickets are 20TL per adult, children free. Nice experience, lost of art and history. Great exhibition displayed on two floors. Abit dark at times. Toilets available on the ground floor.

Good museum, consisted of three parts. When I went there is was empty, only me moving from here and there. I started to feel that all museums are almost the same content, nothing makes this museum so different or nothing adds to my experience, almost the same of archeology museum. I think you need to rethink about "specialising" museums. And work harder on the visitors experience. For sure the displays and statues are magnificent. If you are too much into history and archeology you must visit it.

For tourists : Better than the other lame museum. Actually has a better design but needs better explanation/information cards. IMO Ottoman Empire era stuffs were repetitive and they should’ve focused on Hellenistic stuff more.

This museum has a huge, wonderful collection, so it's a shame that the information about every single object is behind a QR-code, that you can only scan with an app that 'is not available in my country'. I've been wandering around rather clueless, because there's no other way to get the info. Fix this!

Lovely museum Two separate buildings Both rich in things to see Entrance is for 10 Euros

This Musem was advertised as to one with the best coins and jewel collections in this area. Unfortunately the pavillon was closed. Anyway there is a good statues, heads and funerary steles collections. Among the best pieces , here you can see the famous janus head. Janus was one of the oldest/primordial roman divinity. It was the god of time flow and the beginning. His head had two faces, one looking at the future the other looking at the past. Very, very nice also the little sleeping eros, the statue of Zeus and Atena once decorating a local temple. Some beautifully crafted heads of women. A couple of sinous and beautifully femminine Aphrodite statues. Outside there is a big park with lot of trees and sideways on the shadow, nice to walk and see. At the center stands the "parachute tower"

The museum of Art and History located in the culture park in Izmir. 5TL entrance fee gets you access to three main buildings: Sculptures, Ceramics, and artifacts. Coins, statues, and pottery are all fantastic to walk around a take in. There are descriptions in English and Turkish, but not a ton of information on the actual items - what they were meant for, used for, or created for to give you more history and substance to your visit. It reminded me of exhibits you'll see while at university. Those that live in the halls of the research department and walk past every day. Same look and feel here. It was completely deserted while I was there, save for the entrance person. The lights for the exhibits come on when you enter the area, which is a bit eerie at first. The statues are the most impressive and you are able to see them up close and personal. Worth a stop if you are walking around the culture park and have 30 minutes and 5TL to spare.