A trip was conducted with our students to the Bafra Tobacco Museum. During the visit, Museum Supervisor Hasan Dikmen gave a presentation featuring archaeological and anthropological information about the events and history of Bafra and its surroundings throughout ancient times and historical periods.
In the museum's archaeological exhibition halls, artifacts belonging to civilizations that lived in the Bafra region are displayed, spanning from the Late Chalcolithic layers of the İkiztepe Excavations up to the end of the Eastern Roman period.
The building, which is an example of civil architecture reflecting local characteristics, was constructed in 1858 and has served as the Bafra Museum since 2011. The museum exhibits artifacts that shed light on the historical past between 4300 B.C. (İkiztepe Excavations) and the 20th century A.D. In the museum's ethnographic halls, it is possible to see fragments of daily life from the recent history of the Bafra region. The ethnographic section includes kitchen, living room, and bedroom arrangements prepared to reflect the daily life of a traditional Bafra house. Additionally, ethnographic artifacts belonging to Ottoman Era Turkish culture are found in the showcases.
