The Ereğli Museum is housed in a triple storey building known as the Halil Paşa Konağı. The mansion house is of the “medium sofa plan” type with a pagoda. Halil Paşa Mansion dates to the 19th century. It was built by Halil Pasha Karamahmutoğlu, one of the city’s elders. The mansion was built upon the foundations of a church, the sacred material collected from the Roman period buildings was reused, especially in the decoration of the facade. After the building fell out of use, it became (for one term) a secondary school and vocational high school for girls, after wish the building suffered damage. The mansion, which was allocated to the Ministry of Culture in 1989, has been open to the public 1^st August 1998, after 10 years restoration work.

 

The Ereğli Museum. Established in 1988, eas originally housed in Ereğli’s Atatürk Cultural Center. The Museum Directorate and public museum has been in in current home for 10 years, within the historical Halil Pasha Mansion. The original Ereğli museum was closed in 2007 to be moved to its new home, and opened within the Halil Pasha Mansion on 6^th July 2008.

 

On the ground floor are artefacts from the Filyos ancient city excavations and Yassıkaya Cave excavation. Artefacts from the Greek, Roman and Byzantine eras are exhibited including a marble tomb stele dating to the Byzantine period, Greek glass vessels and jewellery.

 

On the first floor there are exhibits of terracotta wares as well as offices related to the administration of administrative services.

 

On the second floor there are various men’s and women’s clothes. Artefacts include the “Elpek” fabric and textile weaving instruments, handkerchiefs, furniture coverings, weapons, jewellery, seals, tobacco related items, rosaries, watches, kitchenware and weighing instruments. There are Abbasid, Umayyad, Sasani, Artuklu, Seljuk period items along with an Ottoman coin collections. In addition, there are written works and local ethnographic works composed of writing patterns and mappings.

 

The third floor of the museum is refurbished as a domestic residence, in the style of the period. There is a sitting room, a guest room, a daily room and a bedroom, all displaying the typical, traditional Ereğli house arrangement.

 

In the museum garden, columns, headstones, grave stones, column bodies and bases, various architectural elements, sarcophagi and the tomb of the famous pantomime artist Krispos are displayed. These artefacts cover the Greek, Roman and Ottoman periods.

 

In 2008, the total number of artefacts was 7, 484 of which 2,202 are archaeological, 4,695 are coins and 587 are ethnographic.