The Troy Museum opened in October 2018 as part of the Turkish government's "Year of Troy," and is by some distance the finest modern museum in this part of the country. The building itself is the first thing to admire — a 13,000-square-metre cube of weathered Corten steel rising from open countryside, designed to suggest a buried artefact emerging from the soil. Inside, the visitor descends a spiralling ramp through galleries devoted to each of the major periods of the Troad region.
The collection covers far more than just Troy — bronze and iron age finds from across the Troad, Roman sculpture from Alexandria Troas (a nearby Roman city), and the Polyxena Sarcophagus (one of the earliest known Greek figural sarcophagi). The Troy material includes the city's stone reliefs, pottery from each stratum, the spectacular gold jewellery from the Helios Treasure, and replicas of the Treasure of Priam that Schliemann smuggled out in the 1870s and which is now in Moscow.
Allow two hours; the labelling is detailed and trilingual. The café and shop are well above the standard for a Turkish archaeological museum. Buy a combined ticket at the site that covers both the museum and the archaeological mound — the museum makes much better sense after walking the site, but works either way around.