Antalya Museum was first established in I922 . After the Alaaddin Mosque, the Yivli Minare in old town was used as the Museum and the museum building was carried to its present location in 1972 

Today it covers an area of 30 000 square meters with 13 exhibition galleries: The Child section which is the first and only one in Turkey, Galleries of the Prehistory, Potteries, finds from the region excavations done by the museum and Universities, Gods statues, Mosaics, Icons, statues of Perge Theatre, Sarcophagi, Coins and Jewellery , Ethnographical Collection