Zeugma Mosaic Museum

The "Gypsy Girl" is in Zeugma Mosaic Museum.

Zeugma Mosaic Museum, in the town of Gaziantep, Turkey, is the biggest mosaic museum in the world, containing 1700m² of mosaics. It opened to the public on 9 September 2011.

The museum's mosaics are focused on Zeugma, thought to have been founded by a general in Alexander the Great’s army. The treasures, including the mosaics, remained relatively unknown until 2000 when artifacts appeared in museums and when plans for new dams on the Euphrates meant that much of Zeugma would be forever flooded.^[1] A large number of the mosaics remain uncovered^[2] and teams of researchers continue to work on the project.^[3]

The 90,000-square-foot museum features a 7,500-square-foot exhibition hall and replaces the Bardo National Museum in Tunis as the world’s largest mosaic museum.^[1]

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Coordinates: 37°04′32″N 37°23′08″E / 37.07556°N 37.38556°E / 37.07556; 37.38556

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• Over 500 pictures of the mosaics in organized galleries

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