Located on the traditional Silk Road, the jap Turkish province of Erzincan will quickly share a whole lot of artifacts spanning hundreds of years and a number of other civilizations with guests in a brand new museum set to open in a couple of weeks.
Around 350 works from the Paleolithic period, the Bronze Age, in addition to the Urartu, Persian, Eastern Roman, Seljuk and Ottoman intervals, will probably be on show within the facility. Constructed on an space of 2,030 sq. meters, the museum is scheduled to open in mid-May and can provide audio descriptions to visually impaired guests as a part of its efforts to reinforce accessibility.
For these unable to go to the reveals in individual, a Virtual Museum system has additionally been created by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
A particular exhibition space has additionally been created, the place the traces and visuals of essential cultural belongings broken by the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that passed off in Erzincan on Dec. 27, 1939, and took almost 33,000 lives and injured hundreds, will probably be positioned within the Museum Garden.
Bülent Gönültaş, head of the Museum’s Department of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Museums, advised Anadolu Agency (AA) that the artifacts from the Bronze Age to the current day, in addition to the works reflecting many intervals from coppersmiths to the normal garments of the area, will probably be exhibited within the museum.
Stating that the museum was designed in accordance with the character of Erzincan and the native structure, Gönültaş mentioned: “I participated in scientific excavations in Altıntepe as a student here 20 years ago. The artifacts we found in the excavation at that time are in this museum too. It is a special pleasure for us that we are exhibiting it. Hopefully, we will enrich the museum with further excavations.”
Provincial Culture and Tourism Director Arda Heb said: “Cultural heritage is a treasure that tells the members of a society about their common past and strengthens the sense of solidarity and unity among them. Transferring the experiences and traditions that people have accumulated throughout history to the field of knowledge ensures the correct establishment of the future. Historical and cultural heritage should be protected not only because of the values it has, but also because it offers young people new learning and development opportunities, fosters creativity and discovery, adds depth to our view of the world and life, and we all have a lot to learn from our past.”
After the completion of the Erzincan Museum, the artifacts preserved by the Provincial Culture and Tourism Directorate Museum Directorate and a few artifacts within the Ankara Anatolian Civilizations Museum and Erzurum Museum may even be dropped at Erzincan.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
