Zeugma Mosaic Museum’s ‘Gypsy Girl’ breaks visitor record during the holiday

Zeugma Mosaic Museum breaks the all-time daily visitor record on the second and third days of Eid al-Fitr, with nearly 40,000 visitors over the 9-day holiday

Zeugma Mosaic Museum, which in-stores many important artifacts, especially the “Gypsy Girl” mosaic, hosted approximately 40,000 people during the nine-day Ramadan Eid holiday.

Zeugma, one of the world’s largest mosaic museums under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is one of the top places visited by local and foreign tourists coming to the region.

“Gypsy Girl,” “Mars statue,” The museum, where Roman-era fountains and mosaics found in the Roman Empire villas by the Euphrates River are exhibited, was flooded with visitors during the Eid holiday.

The all-time daily record number of visitors, which was broken on the second day of the Ramadan Feast with 5,660 visitors, increased to 6,220 on the third day of the feast.

Gaziantep Museum Director Ozgur Comak told an Anadolu Agency (AA) correspondent that the Zeugma Mosaic Museum, which was opened with the understanding of modern museology, is one of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s most important museums.

Explaining that the most critical three-dimensional mosaics of Roman and Greek mythology comprising 13 different color scales are located in the museum, Comak stated that the visitor density has gradually increased since the beginning of the year.

‘We reached an all-time record number’

Stating that the visitor density increased during the holiday, Comak said: “We think this momentum will increase until the end of the year. There was a huge, intense interest in Eid.”

“During the nine-day holiday, we hosted approximately 40,000 visitors. On the second day of the holiday, we reached the figure of 5,660. On the third day, there was even more intense interest, and we reached an all-time record number by hosting 6,220 visitors. On the third day of the holiday, we renewed the all-time daily visitor record.”

Comak stated that Zeugma is one of the first places visited by local and foreign tourists in the city and emphasized that it is one of the locomotive museums in terms of both regional and national tourism.

Source: Newsroom