Van Museum

In the Van Region with its records going again to 5000 BC, it's far viable to see the cultural heritages which carry the traces of this lengthy history to our instances in almost all parts of the location. This wealth changed into justly noticed with the aid of Mr. Mustafa Noyan who become stationed at Van in 1930's as The Director of Education and transportable cultural belongings started out to be amassed at the Van Centre. A depot constructed in 1932 for this motive became the muse of the Van Museum. As a first step the Urartian hierography insrcribed victory stelae which had been plentiful inside the location and sheep and ram formed tomb stones from the Akkoyunlu and Karakoyunlu periods which have been strewn around unprotected have been amassed and transferred to the museum constructing.

As the quantity of cultural heritages grew, in 1945 as a result of the tasks taken, the Van Museum Bureau become set up. At that length Hakki Yakupoilu and Muhittin Toprak held workplace as directors. Eventually the Van Museum Office became insufficient in assembly the necessities of neither the garage nor the display of this material which multiplied both through purchases and as a result of some modest excavations and the bureau turned into changed by way of the Van Museum Directorate which was completed in 1972.