A Review: Adana Museum

In the heart of Adana, there is a step into history: Adana Museum. Adana Museum Complex, with its ​​68,530 square meters service area, was opened to visitors in May 18, International Museum Day. When taking the first step inside the museum, you see the information desk and buy the ticket. It costs only 6 Turkish lira, which is a affordable amount for everybody. In the entrance area, there is also a nice cafeteria and gift shop. Cafeteria is very affordable and its atmosphere is lovely. However, the gift shop is not enough. On your left, there is ‘’Adana in memories’’ panel.

(Adana in Memories)

(Cinevision)

Walking ahead, you see a big cinevision showing the history of Adana in both Turkish and English. You can get pre-information before entering the main museum area. On the right, there is the entrance and timeline panel of Cukurova. The very first section is Paleolithic Age, and other historic ages are  systematically separated. Every historic section, there are 19, has information board both in Turkish and English. The translation of these boards is adequate. Obviously they are made by a professional translator.

(Timeline of Çukurova)

Museum utilizes different sources of information: videos, dioramas, wax sculptures, informative texts and images. Every of them makes your visit more educative and enjoyable. The pieces in the museum -potteries, pots, mugs, tombs, sculptures etc- all dug up from this area -mostly Adana and Mersin. The most interesting section was, for me, mosaic section. The stairs made of glass can be scary if you have acrophobia.

(Potters from Bronz Age)

(Translations)

(Sculptures)

(informative texts - history of glass)

(Diorama)

(Wax Sculptures - Rome)

While visiting, I couldn’t stop thinking about human nature. In every historical era, humans decorated their objects. Maybe because it’s our nature to admire beauty. Second things is about writing. When I saw people used small rocks to write, I realized that it’s also our nature to elucidate. Fortunately we love expressing ourselves, otherwise we would not know so many things about our history.

(Writings on rock)