The Burdur Museum building was inspired by the architecture of the Ottoman Pirkulzade Library, which remained from the madrasah in the garden of the museum.
Popular museum with archaeological finds from statues to pottery and a cafeteria and gift shop.
Burdur Museum, founded in 1956 and reorganized in 2001, is one of the richest museums in Turkey, with more than 60 thousand cultural assets, including those recovered from the excavations of Hacılar, Kuruçay, Höyücek Mounds, Boubon, Kibyra and Sagalassos, and those gained through confiscation and purchase.
Burdur Museum received the “Museum Worth Visiting” award in 2008. It is possible to see unique examples from the Neolithic Age to the present day.
The museum consists of three parts. On the upper floor, there are finds from the Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Ages and finds from the Old Bronze Age. The second part, the ground floor, is arranged in three sections. The first section includes the findings unearthed during the excavations in the Ancient City of Sagalassos. Giant statues of Emperor Hadriani and Marcus Auralius, two of Rome’s best emperors, are exhibited here.