Nigde Museum

Nigde Museum was founded in 15th-century Akmadrasa as the Istanbul Archeology Museum’s storage facility in 1957. After the display and arrangement work, it reopened in 2001. The museum has five exhibition halls. Its collection is mostly made up of artifacts from the city's mounds, such as Pinarbasi, Tepecik, Kosk, and Acemhoyuk. Hittite inscriptions, Phrygian ceramics, and the "Göllüdag Lion," steles from the late Hittite city-states Nahita and Tuvanuva, are the rare artifacts of the museum. The mummies discovered in Aksaray's Ihlara Valley may be the most exciting artifacts. The "Nun Mummy" and four children’s mummies were found in the Canli Church, and it has been thought that the mummies are a thousand years old.