Guide
An old Ottoman building stood where the museum now is, destroyed during the Turkish War of Independence in the 1920s. After the liberation of Bilecik a new building was put up to serve as the courthouse. It was transferred to the Ministry of Culture in 1997, and after restoration the former courthouse was turned into the Bilecik Museum in 2006. Until 2010 it worked as a sub-unit of the Söğüt Museum, and in that year it became a museum in its own right.
Because of its former use the building is large and has a great many rooms, which are used for displaying the archaeological and ethnographic collections. The displays are arranged in chronological order: the first three rooms show works of the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods.
The remaining ten rooms hold ethnological material of the Ottoman period — ceramics and metalwork, weapons, kitchen implements and ornaments — together with examples of clothing and architecture from the Bilecik region.
