Guide
The Konuralp Museum stands in the Konuralp quarter of Düzce, on the site of the ancient city of Prusias ad Hypium, and was founded to display the archaeological finds uncovered there and the cultural heritage of the district.
Construction began in 1977 to protect and display the works uncovered in the ancient city on which Düzce is built, and was finished only in 1992. The museum came into operation on 18 November 1994 as a unit under the provincial directorate of culture and tourism, and was made a directorate in its own right in 2009.
Among the important archaeological works in the collection are a copy of the 2.65-metre statue of Tyche found at Konuralp in 1931, whose original is displayed in the İstanbul Archaeological Museum; a large sarcophagus found in 1937 and dated to the first century AD; and two Roman floor mosaics found in 1998, one of forty-five square metres showing Orpheus and another with a scene of Achilles and his mother Thetis.
The collection is displayed in the museum garden, in three halls given to archaeology, ethnography and stone works, and in the coin section.
