Van Archeology and Ethnography Museum

This is quite a new museum, focusing heavily on the Urartu period, and very informative.

The museum holds artefacts and copies of artefacts from the region. It starts in the Stone Age, before focusing primarily on the Urartian period, about 2800-2600 years ago. The layout is well done and...

Visit here first!

This is one of the best museums I’ve visited. It is very well laid out. The information is in English and Turkish. It’s very big. Allow 2 hours to see everything at a comfortable pace. You should come...

Van Museum - a Turkish Nationalist Enterprise.

Van museum is a "museum of denial" that gives a token presence to Armenians and completely denies any references to Kurds, the two ethnic communities that have constituted a historical majority in thi...

A new museum with glossy graphics but inaccurately labelled exhibits.

Unfortunately, the historical information presented in this museum is not factually correct, it presents the history of the area from the perspective of the conqueror. A few observations: Kurdish cu...

This is a new Museum and well worth the visit.

The Museum is new and our tourist group had just over an hour for the visit. It had many well presented displays depicting the Urartian culture and going back the Arminian culture in 19th BC.