Eskisehir, a large industrialized city in west-central Anatolia, is one of the oldest settlements (3500 BC) in the Anatolia region. Its foundation on the bank of river Porsuk by the Phrygians dates back to the 1st millennium BC. The historical city holds out Phrygian relics and sculptures through its museums.The most famous museum in Eskisehir is the Ottoman House museum, which is the storehouse of 19th century domestic architecture of Turkey`s local ethnographical items. It was founded in the 1st millennium BC by the Phrygians. Hittites assembled a great government centralized in Eskişehir B.C.14. Century.
Eskişehir Archeological Museum was first started as a storage museum in 1945 at Alaaddin Mosque but later moved to the complex of Kursunlu Mosque in 1966 and then to its present place in Akarbaşı in 1974. It has collections of animal and plant fossils from archaic ages, items belong to the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Old Bronze, Hittite and Phrygian Periods, the findings from the Demircihöyük, items from the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Period, coins from the antique and Islamic periods, the findings from Kocakizlar Tumulus, statues, tombs, Roman era floor mosaics from Dorylaeum and the findings of Babadat excavations.
Atatürk and Culture Museum was built in 1921 and is located in the Arifiye part of the city. It was organized to keep the memories of Great Turkish Leader Atatürk who visited Eskişehir between the years of 1920 and 1938.
Yunus Emre Museum is located within the Yunus Emre Complex at Yunus Emre Village Sarikoy and has a porched entrance with arched windows. It still keeps the famous Turkish dervish, poet, philosopher Yunus Emre's memories alive.
Seyitgazi Museum is located at Seyitgazi District of Eskisehir, within the Seyit Battalgazi Complex. The complex is a great sample of Seljuk, Early Ottoman and Classical Ottoman Periods.