Amasya lies in the hinterland of the Black Sea coast in the Pontic Mountains in the narrow valley of the river Yeşilırmak at 390 m above sea level. The main part of the city extends on the east side of the river, on the west side there are only a few rows of houses at the foot of the steep castle hill. Five bridges connect both halves of the city.

The city has a 7,500-year history that has left many traces to this day. In ancient times Amaseia was a fortified town high on the cliffs above the river. From it came kings and princes, artists, scientists, poets and thinkers; from the kings of Pontus to the geographer Strabo to many generations of the Ottoman imperial dynasty.

The archaeological-ethnographic museum is located on the Mustafa Kemal Paşa Cd., the busy main road through the city.

The archaeological museum Amasya was founded in 1925. On March 22, 1977, after 52 years of shadow existence in various buildings, the exhibits were combined in the present modern building and opened to the public on June 14, 1980.
On two floors there are exhibits from the Neolithic period, the Early Bronze Age, the Hittites, Urartians, Phrygians, Scythians, Persians as well as from the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman periods.
On the upper floor, four mummies are shown in a special area. In the museum garden to the west of the museum building, stone witnesses from Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman periods are on display. Here is also the grave of the Seljuk Sultan I. Mesud from the 14th century in which further mummies are located and can be visited. A total of 8 mummies have found their way into the museum.

to the exhibits