Archaeology Museum

Right in the centre of town, the Archaeology Museum boasts a small but substantial collection of artefacts, including Greek, Roman and Byzantine gravestones, busts and pillars. Most interestingly, it features a collection of statues from the 4th century BC that formed part of the so-called 'Pergamum School' when sculptors, breaking with the more grotesque and stylised traditions of previous centuries, first began to represent the gods as recognisably human with expressive features. Other finds from the surrounding sites include a smashed Roman tablet listing city laws, discovered at the Lower Agora on the acropolis.

Look out too for the scale replica of the Altar of Zeus (the original is in Berlin) and, in the main hall, finds from the nearby, and quite probably doomed, site of Allianoi. The ethnography gallery focuses on the crafts and customs of the Ottoman period with dioramas representing folk dancing and carpet weaving.