Mardin Museum
Mardin Museum is located to the north of Cumhuriyet Square in downtown Mardin. It was founded in 1895 and is an archeology and ethnography museum. In its halls, the artifacts belong to the periods of the Bronze Age, Assyrian, Urartian, and Hellenistic, and the Achaemenid, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, Artukid, and Ottoman empires. The building of museum was built as a Syriac Catholic Patriarchate by Ignatios Behnam Banni and was used for religious and various other purposes until 2000, since then, it has been Mardin Museum's house.