Antalya Museum was founded in 1922 by teacher Süleyman Fikri Erten to protect the artifacts rescued from the looting of the occupation forces that came to the region after the First World War. The museum, which was first located in Alaaddin Mosque in Kaleiçi and later in Yivli Mosque, moved to its current building in 1972. Today, the Antalya Museum consists of 14 exhibition halls of 30 thousand square meters, open-air galleries where sculptures and various artifacts are exhibited, and a garden. A significant part of the three ancient cultural regions of Lycia, Pamphylia, and Pisidia, which are located within the borders of the Antalya Region, one of the wealthiest corners of Anatolia, which has witnessed the history of humanity without interruption, constitutes the responsibility area of the Antalya Museum. Antalya is a unique open-air museum and an international excavation center with its archaeological riches, and scientists from many countries carry out scientific excavations every year. The Antalya Museum carries out numerous rescue excavations and archaeological landscaping works in the region.