Good museum, consisted of three parts. When I went there is was empty, only me moving from here and there. I started to feel that all museums are almost the same content, nothing makes this museum so different or nothing adds to my experience, almost the same of archeology museum. I think you need to rethink about "specialising" museums. And work harder on the visitors experience. For sure the displays and statues are magnificent. If you are too much into history and archeology you must visit it.

Self service museum! Even the museum shop is a vending machine 👍 tickets are 20TL per adult, children free. Nice experience, lost of art and history. Great exhibition displayed on two floors. Abit dark at times. Toilets available on the ground floor.

This Musem was advertised as to one with the best coins and jewel collections in this area. Unfortunately the pavillon was closed. Anyway there is a good statues, heads and funerary steles collections. Among the best pieces , here you can see the famous janus head. Janus was one of the oldest/primordial roman divinity. It was the god of time flow and the beginning. His head had two faces, one looking at the future the other looking at the past. Very, very nice also the little sleeping eros, the statue of Zeus and Atena once decorating a local temple. Some beautifully crafted heads of women. A couple of sinous and beautifully femminine Aphrodite statues. Outside there is a big park with lot of trees and sideways on the shadow, nice to walk and see. At the center stands the "parachute tower"

We found this museum to very interesting with lots to see. There weren't very many people when we went through. The cost to enter is 12.5 lira each. A little difficult to find but well worth visiting, takes maybe an hour to go through. 3btraveler

It's one of best museums around in izmir. It's very close to Basmane train station. Museums has 3 huge compartments and a wide number of collections all they way from 2Cen Bc to ottoman empire. Museum can be reached from Alsancak easily. Ticket costs around 6TL and if you have museum card that will work. There is also a dedicated section for gladiators and many ancient artifacts. Museum can be easily checked on Google maps and it is located in an open area near to a park.

a nice small (but not that small) archaelogical museum inside a big and nice park. If you are coming from a country with big archaelogical museums (like Italy or Greece) you will not be impressed. But its an ok museum to visit. When visited it was completely empty. definitely deserves more attention than the other archaelogical museum of Izmir

I visited the department of stone works and paintings sections. I was not able to visit the ceramics or precious works sections. Still, I found both the stone works and fine arts sections to be worth a visit. The stone works department contains works from the ancient agora of Izmir as well as other excavations surrounding Izmir including Metropolis and Aphrodisias (a nice complement to the extensive Aphrodiasis finds in the Istanbul Archeological museum). There are a few excellently preserved mosaics as well. The paintings are from the late Ottoman (Tanzimat) period and Turkish republican periods. The pamphlet provided was informative; however, the descriptions on the wall are in Turkish only and the works aren't dated, making for a bit more effort to understand the chronology/ context of the works. The entry price at time of writing was 17.5 TL for both.

Very large complex with many museums inside in addition of a library. Archaeological museum is fantastic. Highly recommended. The entrance is from the main street to whole complex. You can use müzekart if you are a resident of Türkiye. Inside there is a café as well and the park is nice to roam around. It was quite on Saturday morning.

It is one of the best historical museums we have ever visited. There are a lot of interesting historical, archeological things. It was an adventure in the past times for us. This is the place number one for visiting in Izmir.

Great content. Easy to navigate. Only issue is some of the artifacts were so poorly illuminated it was hard to make out the finer details.

Open, info in Google maps wrong! Very recommended

Why hasn't anyone bothered to show history museum is closed? Google site says regular hours -- very disappointed. However art museum is a little jewel, with wonderful paintings. More women artists, please?

Amazing museum. I was amazed to see archaïc and hellenistic sculptures for the first time. A gem for greek and roman mythology lovers.

What I liked is that it has different paintings and art different form European museums. But is kind of small.

Was great but the interior design could be better

The Statues inside the Museum are wonderful. There is also a partion that lets you see what our ancestors fight and what they do. Overall great museum but one building is closed mondays. Be aware

It's okay, always interesting to see ancient sculptures. But not that grand or exciting.

Anyone who wants to know old history of Izmir region must visit this museum. I could see things from several thousand years old including necklaces, coins and statues.

Good but small , Greek and Roman history

If you have a guide like Alara, it is just amazing...

Not so well protected structures.. but in general it was so cool to experience.

It’s a pretty cool hidden jewel, specially with the coins they have (Roman, bizantin, ottoman, etc)!

If you like history it's worth a visit and it's not expensive. There are numerous sculptures and artefacts from the past.