Museum sights in Selçuk
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Ephesus Museum
This excellent museum houses a striking collection of artefacts recovered from the ancient city. The first gallery is dedicated to finds from the Terrace Houses of Ephesus, including scales, jewellery and cosmetic boxes. This is also where you'll find the famous effigy of Priapus, the Phallic God, as seen plastered on every postcard from İstanbul to Antakya. No doubt to avoid offending delicate sensibilities, it's displayed inside a darkened case. Press the light to see him illuminated in all his rampant glory.
The other display areas hold collections of coins, funerary goods, and plenty of statuary. There's an entire room dedicated to sculpted representations of Eros, an…
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Çetin Museum
Located 300m beyond the roundabout for Pamucak and Kuşadası, this small museum details Anatolian life in the 1950s with a costumed doll collection and folk-dancing exhibit. And although it's curated in an uninspiring hangar, it makes for a cheery stop for those with some extra time on their hands.
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Çamlık Steam Locomotive Museum
Trainspotters will delight in this open-air museum, a few kilometres from central Selçuk on the Aydın road. The attractively landscaped site has over 30 steam locomotives, some as old as the 1887 C-N2 from the UK, and most of which are free to climb on. Atatürk had his headquarters here and kept his special white train at this station during Aegean manoeuvres. A small gallery space honours the memory of Atatürk with countless photos, portraits, newspaper articles and an antique desk.
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