Zeugma Mosaic Museum

Museum in Gaziantep, southern Turkey

37°04′32″N 37°23′08″E / 37.07556°N 37.38556°E / 37.07556; 37.38556TypeArchaeology museum

Zeugma Mosaic Museum, in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey, is the biggest mosaic museum in the world, containing 1700 m² of mosaics.^[2] It opened to the public on 9 September 2011. The 30,000 m² (320,000 sq ft) museum features 2,448 m² (26,350 sq ft) of mosaic and replaces the Bardo National Museum in Tunis as the world's largest mosaic museum.^[1]^[3]

The museum's Hellenistic Greek and Roman mosaics are focused on Zeugma, which is said to have been founded as Seleucia by Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Kingdom after serving as a hetairoi military officer in the army of Alexander the Great.^[4] The treasures, including the mosaics, remained relatively unknown until 2000 when artifacts appeared in museums and when plans for new dams on the Euphrates meant that much of Zeugma would be flooded.^[5] In 2011, many of the mosaics remain covered,^[6] and teams of researchers continue to work on the project.^[7]

The museum building and its artifacts survived the M_w 7.8 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake unscathed, unlike most of Gaziantep, which was heavily damaged. All of the museum staff also survived the earthquake.^[8] The museum was reopened in April 2023, two and a half months after the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake.^[9]

Gallery

Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Mars statue
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Achilles mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Acrotos mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Andromeda mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Antiope mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Daedalus mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Dionysos mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Dionysos and Ariadne mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Dionysos Triumph mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Eros and Psyche mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Methiokos mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Women at breakfast aka Drama Group mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Oceanus and Thetys 1 mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Oceanus and Thetys 2 mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Water gods mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Zeus and Europa mosaic
Kidnapping of Europa
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Unidentified mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Clio and Euterpe mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Galatea mosaic
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Unidentified mosaic

References

^ ^a ^b Dünyanın en büyük mozaik müzesi Gaziantep'te [The world's largest mosaic museum is in Gaziantep], 8 September 2011
^ "Dünyanın en büyük mozaik müzesi Gaziantep'te". 8 September 2011.
^ "Zeugma Mosaic Museum". Gazi̇antep Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism.
^ "Remarkably Pristine Ancient Greek Mosaics Uncovered in Turkish City of Zeugma". My Modern Met. 2014-11-24. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
^ "Museum of Roman Mosaics to Open in Turkey". Luxury Travel Magazine.
^ "Gaziantep Zeugma Mosaics Museum". Go Turkey. Turkey's Official Tourism Portal. Archived from the original on 2011-10-25. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
^ "Secret Turk heroes of Zeugma Mosaic Museum". Hurriyet Daily News. 2011-11-03. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
^ Mehmet Akif Parlak (2023-02-18). "Zeugma Mozaik Müzesi'ndeki eserler depremi hasarsız atlattı" (in Turkish). Anadolu Agency. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
^ "Zeugma Mozaik Müzesi depremden sonra ilk kez kapılarını açtı" (in Turkish). Cumhuriyet. 20 April 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.

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