Corum Museum

Corum Museum

The Corum Museum, situated near the Monument of Martyrs in the city center, was opened on October 13, 1968. The museum is a single-story building consisting of four exhibition halls, as well as an area for storing materials and a photography laboratory.

The museum displays a selection of archaeological pieces from Alacahöyük, Boğazköy, Ortaköy, Eskiyapar, Pazarlı, and Kuşsaray, in addition to works from Alişar Höyük. The first hall and the corridor exhibit a range of items, including coins, ceramics, glass perfume cups and lachrymatories, figurines and statuettes, offering cups, steles, sarcophagi, and column capitals. There is also a typological display of jewelry from the Hellenistic (300 BC – 30 BC), Roman (30 BC – 300 AD), and Byzantine (300 AD - 1500s) periods.

Corum Museum

The exhibition at the Corum Museum showcases a variety of artifacts from the Hittite and Phrygian periods, including beak-shaped vessels, bath basins, flask-shaped cups, and vases with moulds and crucibles in various shapes. The galleries also feature painted reliefed wall panels and multi-colored baked earth reliefs, as well as pottery, stone, and bronze implements from various cultures, including pots from the Chalcolithic-Old Bronze age and idols and spearheads from Alişar.

The third and fourth halls of the museum display unique rugs and kilims from the Çorum region, clothing, jewelry, and ornaments for both men and women, wooden objects, and religious manuscripts created during the Seljuk and Ottoman periods.

In the museum garden, visitors can see a fountain with a bull figure, statues from the Roman and Byzantine periods, tomb steles and milling stones, and inscriptions and tombstones from Seljuk and Ottoman periods.

As of 1997, the museum stored 12,337 items, including 3,408 archaeological materials, 2,360 ethnographic pieces, 3,169 coins, and more.