Side is the largest archaeological area in Turkey. To date, most of the valuable finds discovered in the area of ​​this city in different periods of time are in the Museum of the city, which is always ready to present these amazing exhibits to tourists. A large number of exhibits of the museum were found in 1947-1967 during the excavations of this ancient city under the leadership of Arif Mufid Mansel.
A unique part of the collection are children's sarcophagi with a picture of a dog peeping out of the door, personifying a heartbroken mother, butterflies and swallows - symbolic images of children's innocent souls. Here you can also see the bronze statue of Artemis and the head of Apollo, made of white marble.
In the first room of the museum there are armory bas-reliefs from the Hellenistic period, an altar from the Roman period and a sundial. Torsoi from the Roman period are exhibited in the second room. In the third hall there are amphorae, statues, bas-reliefs, inscriptions of the Hellenistic period, and in the fourth - tombs, statues of Atsen, Hermes, Hijia, Apollo, Nike, portraits and torsos.
To this day, the remains of an amphitheater for sixteen thousand spectators, a statue of Emperor Vespasian, the Temple of Fortune, an agora, a fountain, Roman baths (in which the archaeological museum is currently located), an aqueduct and a necropolis have been preserved in Side.