The Konya Archaeological Museum is small but quietly outstanding, with a collection drawn from the long prehistory of the Konya plain. The headline pieces are the Çatalhöyük finds — clay figurines, obsidian tools, and the famous Neolithic painted plasters from the great mound site 50 km southeast of the city, dated to the seventh millennium BC.
The rest of the museum covers Hittite and Phrygian-era stelae, Greek and Roman sculpture (including some fine sarcophagi from the period when Konya was the Roman city of Iconium), and Byzantine inscriptions. It is the right preparation for a day trip to Çatalhöyük itself: most of the best finds are here, while the site preserves only the architectural foundations and a few in-situ wall paintings under cover.
Closed Mondays. Allow about ninety minutes.