Troy Museum

Overview

The Troy Museum stands at the entrance to the ancient city of Troy, in the village of Tevfikiye near Çanakkale. It opened to visitors in October 2018. Inside, you follow the story of Troy and the Troad, the old name of this corner of Anatolia, from Bronze Age gold to the carved Polyxena sarcophagus. The museum is open every day of the week.

Where the Troy Museum stands

The museum lies in Tevfikiye, about 30 km (19 miles) from the center of Çanakkale, right where you enter the ruins. For the mound itself, its nine layers and its walls, read our page on Troy.

Quick facts

• Good for: Bronze Age gold, the Polyxena sarcophagus, the story of the Troy digs
• Best combined with: the ruins of Troy, the Trojan Horse in Çanakkale, Assos

History of the Troy Museum

From Çanakkale to Tevfikiye, 2013 to 2019

Builders began the museum in 2013. Then the work stopped in 2015, and it started again in 2017. The doors opened in October 2018. Every object of the old Çanakkale Archaeological Museum moved to the new building. So, on 18 March 2019, the Troy Museum opened officially with the collection of the whole province, and the old museum in town closed.

Inside the Troy Museum

A walk on the ramps

Your visit begins on a ramp. In niches along its walls, gravestones, large statues, scene models and big photographs tell the story of each layer of Troy. The building has a ground floor and three upper floors, and ramps of about 480 meters (1,575 feet) link them. Together, the halls give 3,000 square meters (32,000 square feet) to the displays. Because the story runs in seven parts, you move from the Troad to Bronze Age Troy, then to Homer, Rome and the Ottomans.

The gold of the Troad

At the center of the ground floor, the gold of the Troad fills a room of its own, with special lighting. Part of it is what remains of the treasure that Heinrich Schliemann took abroad in the 19th century, without the knowledge of Ottoman officials. Another group came back to Türkiye in 2012 from the University of Pennsylvania Museum.

Bronze Age Troy, floor by floor

On the first floor, the layers of Troy appear in order, with most space for Troy II and for Troy VI and VII. Then a projection shows how the city was left after a war at the end of the Late Bronze Age. Nearby lies a bronze seal with Luwian signs, found in the upper city in 1995.

The Polyxena sarcophagus

On the second floor, the Iliad takes over. Its star is the Polyxena sarcophagus, carved between 520 and 500 BC and found in 1994 in a tumulus near Biga. It is the earliest sarcophagus with figured scenes found so far in Anatolia. One long side shows the sacrifice of Polyxena, the young daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, and 37 human figures cover its faces. Then a short animation, inspired by Greek vase painting and shadow theater, retells the fall of Troy.

The diggers of Troy

The top floor turns to the Ottoman centuries and to the people who dug the mound. It follows Frank Calvert, Heinrich Schliemann and Wilhelm Dörpfeld, then Carl Blegen. Finally, it ends with Manfred Korfmann, whose work from 1988 to 2005 helped Troy become a national park and a World Heritage Site.

Visiting the Troy Museum

How to visit the Troy Museum

The museum is open every day, and an audio guide is available. From Çanakkale, village buses run to Tevfikiye, or you can come by car with your driver. Since the museum stands at the entrance to the ruins, plan both for one day. We arrange your entry to the Troy Museum and the ruins of Troy on the same day.

Before you go

On our Troy day, you cross the strait on the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge and walk the ruins with your guide. Afterwards, the museum shows you the gold, the pottery and the Polyxena sarcophagus. We stop at the Trojan Horse, Çanakkale on the waterfront before the drive home. For the battlefields across the water, see Gallipoli and Gallipoli or Troy. For the wider province, see our Çanakkale guide.

Updated: October 26, 2026.

Seeing the Troy Museum with Us

Would you like to see the gold of Troy on the same day as its walls? Our Troy day trip from Istanbul brings you to the ruins and the Troy Museum in one long day. Our Gallipoli and Troy tour adds the peninsula and a night by the strait. The gold in the museum makes more sense after the walls; give us your date and we will see both in one day.