Tekirdağ Ethnography Museum was established in 1967 and continued its activities in a small exhibition hall until 1977. After the restorations carried out after the building, which was built as the governor's mansion in 1927, was transferred to the Ministry of Culture to be used as a museum, the new building in Ertuğrul Mahallesi Rakoczhi Caddesi No.1 was opened to visitors in 1992 as the Archeology and Ethnography Museum. The museum display consists of the stone artifacts hall at the entrance, archaeological artifacts and ethnography hall on the second floor, and large garden displays.

 HALL OF STONE WORKS

Artifacts consisting of statues, steles, reliefs, tombstones and inions brought from the ruins within the borders of our province, especially Perinthos (Marmara Ereğlisi), Heraion Teichos (Karaevlialtı), Byzante (Barbaros), Apri (Kermeyan), and the Odrysian Odrysses of the Thracians in the Harekattepe Tumulus The skeleton of a king belonging to his dynasty is exhibited in flesh, along with funerary finds, royal and priestly crowns.

The tomb chamber, which was recreated in the exact dimensions of the Naip Tumulus, which also belongs to a Thracian prince, is accompanied by a tomb inventory consisting of silver vessels, jewelry, oil lamps, shields and candlesticks with Macedonian elements. Among the finds, the banquet table of Egyptian origin and the ikhneumon figures on the shield provide information about the life adventure of the prince as well as dating.

In another corner of the entrance hall, the votive figurines, statuettes and medicine furnace found in the cult and health center in the Herion Teichos ruins, the only Thracian city whose archaeological excavations continue in our country, are with other excavation finds. Also, I.S. The artifacts of the Ancient City of Perinthos, which stood out as the center of the province in the 1st century and were localized to today's M. Ereğlisi District, form a large exhibition space in the stone artifacts hall.

 HALL OF ARCHEOLOGICAL ARTICLES

The stone tools found in the Bed and Kuştepe locations of Tekirdağ's Karansıllı Village, and the flint and quartz cutters found in the Çavuşköy Ballı area of ​​the Malkara District belong to the lower paleolithic period and belong to the first half of the middle Pleistocene, that is, 500,000 years ago. Stone axes, bone tools, spearheads, arrowheads, metal and terracotta figurines, daily use vessels, produced from these periods until the Iron Age; Information on the Güneşkaya and Güngörmez Caves, located in the valleys formed by the Ergene and Galata Streams in Saray District, and the excavations carried out on the Tekirdağ coastline from the Neolithic Age (8000-5000 BC), which was the first land settlement period, to the village-shaped settlements. The Toptepe Mound, a Chalcolithic settlement dating back to 5000 BC, and the mother goddess cult vessel are visual representations of the earliest periods of our province. At the 8th kilometer of the Tekirdağ-Istanbul highway, the Violet Spring, which has the appearance of a wide and flat mound on the seaside, is divided into two as the East and West Violet Springs. In the excavations carried out in the western fork, it was found in the lower layers of the BC Toptepe Culture. In the layers dated to 4300 B.C., structures made with the plastered fence architectural technique were found. Photographs and animations of dog, pig and human votive pits were made, along with mud-brick architectural layers belonging to the early Iron Age, the earliest period of the Thracians, and the remains of hearths and ovens connected to this architecture.

Our city has a coast approximately 130 km from the Marmara Sea.​​ Grapes that produced by locals is transported by ships. In the ancient period, many sailors who wanted to carry amphorae filled with wine, lacking healthy direction information, were caught in the strong winds of the Marmara Sea and sank. Many of these shipwrecks were boats carrying the wines of a metropolis called Ganos in the Middle Ages, on the border of Tekirdağ Şarköy District. Accompanied by an ancient boat illustration, Ganos Amporas are exhibited in a large area in this section of our museum.

In addition, the crater of the Syleus Painter, which is located in the central Yamanlar Mevkii, on which is described in the 24th chapter of Homer's Iliad, the rescue of the body of Hector, the son of the Trojan King Priamos, the Toptepe mother goddess cult vessel, the Perinthos and Karaevli sarcophagus finds, Trak Votive steles, figurines, fibulae, jewelry, fragrance bottles, oil lamps, ornaments, Thracian city and king coins, and electron, bronze, silver and gold coins belonging to the Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and European periods are exhibited in two separate coin showcases in chronological order.

 ETNOGRAPHY HALL

Terracotta glazed and metal pots used in the Ottoman and recent periods, Çanakkale Ceramics, fire and cutting weapons, silver jewelry, Tekirdağ region women's and men's clothes, Turkish bath sets, handicrafts, covers, towels, Karacakılavuz Hand-Weavings, manu quran Tekirdağ Sanjak, dated 21st Teşrinievvel 1338- Rodosto (21 October 1922-Tekirdağ), which is made of silk and red silk fabric and has prayers of conquest written with silver embroideries, is exhibited. In addition, a traditional circumcision room animation is accompanied by the furniture of the period. In addition, a Tekirdağ Room was animated by using movable mannequins dressed in traditional clothes, accompanied by a fireplace, ottomans, curtains, woven carpets, daily use containers, handmade wooden carved cradles.In addition, the crater of the Syleus Painter, which is located in the central Yamanlar Mevkii, on which is described in the 24th chapter of Homer's Iliad, the rescue of the body of Hector, the son of the Trojan King Priamos, the Toptepe mother goddess cult vessel, the Perinthos and Karaevli sarcophagus finds, Trak votive stelae, figurines, fibulae, jewelry, fragrance bottles, oil lamps, ornaments, Thracian city and king coins and electron, bronze, silver belonging to Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and European periods. 

GARDEN DISPLAY

Sarcophagi, columns, statues, column capitals, friezes, architraves, tomb steles, altars, pithoi, and tombstones from the Hellenistic Period to the Ottoman Period are exhibited in typological form in the wide garden of the Tekirdağ Museum. Hacı Sayyid Said Fountain, which was located on Tekirdağ Pier in the period, contains a crescent and star motif in two small cartridges on both sides; With its elegant forms, eye-pleasing decorations, and original writings, it is a special example of fountain architecture from the Ottoman Period. In addition, the Liberation Monument dated 13 Teşrin-i Sani 1338 (13 November 1922), which was built by the Provincial Registrar of the period, Niyazi Tayyip Bey, to mark the liberation of the city from the enemy occupation and to express his gratitude to the Great Leader Atatürk, is exhibited in the garden of our museum.