Ethnographic Museum


This small museum, housed in a group of restored old Malatyan mansions known as the Beşkonaklar (Five Mansions), is worth a quick look for the displays of jewellery, textiles and fearsome old weapons amid the upstairs salons, which are set up to recreate rooms in a traditional Malatyan house.


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