Antalya city museum maritime trade and history sector fiction

Antalya, an important port city throughout the Mediterranean Civilization, has not lost its importance from the Ancient times to present in terms of geographical location and strategic importance. Just as political developments and wars are important in the formation of the countries; overseas commercial relations have ensured the formation of new civilizations in social, commercial and cultural terms. The maritime trade fiction we mentioned here based the Mediterranean and Attaleia port is described in a museum concept that explains the texture and history of a city. Antalya Maritime Trade has been fictionalized by considering the socio-economic and cultural areas also. Today, with contemporary museology understanding and modern display techniques, the museums are not only the places where collections are stored, kept and displayed simply. In the museums built according to the new museology understanding, permanent and temporary exhibitions are created with the themes and designs they have and they are becoming functional in modern architectural structures in accordance with digital possibilities. Now, the museums are structured in accordance with needs of the visitors and they use methods such as interactive presentations, workshops in the direction of lifelong education. In addition to the powerful collections that the museums have, they make creative exhibits with replica works, models, animations, 3D systems. It was considered that the temporary exhibition themes we suggested here are practicable. Since the main direction of subject is Antalya Maritime Trade, the use of sea routes and the formation of ports by human being and the trade in the Ancient times were explained as Mediterranean and Antalya based. The information and resources related to Antalya Harbour and maritime trade are limited. In fact, there was a maritime trade made illicitly. We get information about the early period from ancient geographers and travellers and we get information about the 18th and 19th centuries from the Ottoman archival records and Antalya Sharia Court Registry Book. The designs that will form temporary exhibition proposals, life in the pier and harbour area, which compose the most active areas of urban fabric, trade network that enables cultural interaction was about commodity commerce which was the subject of maritime trade and provided the development of civilizations. Our main temporary exhibition designs are expressed under the following headings: 1) Antalya Maritime Trade Commodities 2) Trade Ships in Ancient Times 3) Antalya Sea Customs 4) Antalya Pier and the Merchants 5) Mediterranean, Slave Trade and Piracy 6) Antalya Harbor and Sea Trade in the Republic Period Key Words: Antalya, Antalya Port, Mediterranean Sea Trade in Ancient Times, Sea Trade Exhibition, Antalya City Museum, Exhibition Fictions