Troy Museum

Dedicated to the place made famous by Homer’s Iliad, the Troy Museum—situated amid the city’s ruins—brings an ancient legend to life. Among the collections are 24 pieces of “Troy Gold” jewelry, dating back to 2400 B.C.E., that were returned in 2012 by the Penn Museum in the U.S. in a landmark agreement between the two countries, as well as pottery and marble works from the era of the Trojan War. The cubelike museum, which opened in October 2018, was designed by Istanbul-based architecture studio Yalin Mimarlik to look like an excavated artifact—not unlike those that might be found at the archeological site nearby, viewable from the terrace at the top of the building. The museum brings a new buzz to the location of the storied siege. —Suyin Haynes