Konya's Selçuk University runs its own museum, and its collection looks well beyond Anatolia: Maya, Aztec and Inca objects sit alongside pieces from China and Japan and from several African cultures, some 2,500 items in all, gathered over years of work according to the university.
The university describes the museum as the first in Türkiye for the breadth of such a collection, and presents it as one of the few university museums in the country. At its opening the Faculty of Fine Arts also showed 46 works by 43 of its staff.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Konya as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -0.1 °C in January to 23.6 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (43 mm) and lightest in August (6 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
