By the time a traveller reaches Çorum, there's a good chance they'll have seen more than enough small town museums, but don't make the assumption that Çorum's version of the same is not worth visiting – quite the opposite in fact. This excellent museum, one of the best in central Turkey, uses impressive exhibits, computer graphics and film to display Anatolian history from the Bronze Age to the Roman period, with a major focus on Hittite history.
The centrepiece is a reconstruction of the royal tomb at Alacahöyük, with bull skulls and a crumpled skeleton clad in a crown, and there are some incredible artefacts such as a Hittite ceremonial jug with water-spouting bulls around its rim, and a good collection of Hittite cuneiform tablets.
Next door, and included in the entrance fee, is the less impressive Ethnographic Museum contianing the usual selection of mannequins making pots, drinking çay and so forth.
The museum is just over the main road from the otogar.
