The Ephesus Archaeological Museum in Selçuk holds finds from one of the world's most important ongoing excavations. For anyone visiting the ancient city, this is an essential complement to the site itself: the terrace houses, the theatre, and the street columns become far more legible once you have seen the frescoes, statuary, and household objects that were found in them.
The collection spans millennia, from Neolithic finds from the surrounding region through to Byzantine ivories, but the Roman material dominates and rewards the most attention. The Hall of Artemis contains the famous multi-breasted statues. A reconstructed Roman banquet room with its original floor mosaics, portrait busts of emperors and local dignitaries, and a room of finds from the Terrace Houses make this one of the better provincial archaeological museums in Turkey. Allow at least an hour. The museum is in central Selçuk, within walking distance of the Temple of Artemis column and about 5 km from the main Ephesus site.