Van Museum
Van, İpekyolu · Museum
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About
The Van Museum or Urartu Museum (Turkish: Van müzesi) is a museum located in the city of Van in eastern Turkey. It showcases on 13,000 m2 a large archaeological and ethnographic record of human life and cultural development in the lake Van region from eastern Anatolia’s Stone Age to the present. The main focus of the museum is on the Urartian period, about 2800-2600 years ago. Of particular interest are the Hakkari kurgan stelae.
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Location
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The best-known places close by, in the shortest order from Van Museum: about 142 km and 2 h 25 min of travel, plus roughly 7 h 30 min for the visits.
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Directions for this routeDistances are straight-line estimates adjusted for roads; check each museum's hours before you go.
On these itineraries
- Four Days in Van and Kars · 4 days · about 21 h 50 min
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