Qualla: Çeşme Museum https://qualla.com/cesme-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/d/cesme-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Çeşme Museum https://qualla.com/cesme-museum Çeşme Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/cesme-museum/ Photo credit Gargarapalvin, CC BY-SA 4.0. The collection began with rust. When the museum first opened inside Çeşme Castle in 1965, it displayed weapons - but the damp air trapped within the old stone walls crept into the metal and began to corrode the blades and barrels. The weapons were moved out to drier homes elsewhere, and the fortress had to find a different story to tell. What it found, in the end, was the whole sweep of this coast: Greek figurines, Roman lamps, and the wreckage of a sea battle that once lit the bay outside.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/d/cesme-museum-wp/swfd-e-me-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Çeşme Museum: A Museum in a Fortress https://qualla.com/cesme-museum/ Photo credit Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Çeşme Museum lives inside the walls of Çeşme Castle, the Ottoman stronghold on the western tip of the Anatolian coast. The Aegean is only about sixty meters to the west, and just in front of the entrance stands a statue of the admiral Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha with his lion....

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/d/cesme-museum-wp/swfd-e-me-museum-a-museum-in-a-fortress.mp3 0:06 2 full Çeşme Museum: Erythrae and the Ancient Coast https://qualla.com/cesme-museum/ Photo credit Gargarapalvin, CC BY-SA 4.0. Long before the Ottomans, this shore belonged to the Greek world. One hall of the museum gathers objects from the Archaic, Roman, and Byzantine eras - terracotta figurines, oil lamps, everyday pottery that outlived the hands that shaped it. A second hall is given over to finds fr...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/d/cesme-museum-wp/swfd-e-me-museum-erythrae-and-the-ancient-coast.mp3 0:06 3 full Çeşme Museum: Relics of the Battle https://qualla.com/cesme-museum/ Photo credit Gargarapalvin, CC BY-SA 4.0. The most charged room in the museum looks out, in a sense, onto its own subject. One hall commemorates the Battle of Çeşme, the eighteenth-century naval clash fought in the bay just beyond the walls, where in July 1770 a Russian fleet destroyed the Ottoman navy almost entirely in...

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