MUSEUMS OF NIGDE
NIGDE
MUSEUM
In 1936 archaeological findings and ethnographic works
from the region of Nigde were stored in the Akmedrese
in Nigde. It was built during the Karamanoglu period.
After a short time the works were put on exhibit in the
courtyard and rooms of the Medrese thus establishing Nigde
Museum.
Alaeddin
Ali Bey of the Karamanogullari built the Akmedrese in
1409. It is in the Seljuk open courtyard style with an
exedra. Because the portal is covered with white marble
it is called the Akmedrese (white medrese).
The
museum rooms contain written documents of the Hittite
period, steles, statues, masonry, tear bottles taken from
graves, lamps and bronze and gold objects from the Roman-Byzantine
periods, gold, silver and bronze coins from the Hellenistic
to Ottoman periods, carved wooden doors from the Seljuk
period, a steel safe and box, embroidered napkins and
waistbands, clothes, coffee services, spoons, keys, clocks,
weapons, knives, and a mummy thought to date from the
IX-X centuries.
In
the exedra is a hair tent belonging to a Turkmen tribe,
which lived in the region of Nigde. In the garden is exhibited
masonery from the Roman-Byzantine period, steles, inscriptions,
and Islamic gravestones. A new modern museum building
is being built in Nigde at the present time.
