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The Black Sea Ergli Museum, also known as Halil Pasha Palace, was built by the second Sultan in the late 19th century. It was built on the foundation of an old church, and antique materials collected from Romanesque buildings were used as chapels and for the decoration of the facade. On the ground floor of the museum are marble splints, marble column heads, glassware, ornaments, metalwork, oil lamps, and archaeological artifacts from the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine eras, collected from Airgli and the surrounding areas. On the first floor ceramic, Lydian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Abbasid, Umayyad, Sassanid, Artuian, Seljuk and Ottoman coins are displayed. On the second floor are mens and womens clothing, textile paraphernalia, and textiles such as handkerchiefs, packets and covers, weapons, seals, rosaries, clocks, kitchen utensils, measuring and weighing instruments, and local ethnographic artifacts. On the third floor there is a living room, a guest room, a day room and a bedroom arranged according to the Ottoman era. Finally in the museum garden are capitals, bodies and column bases, architectural pieces, sarcophagi, and the mausoleum of Crispus, a pantomime artist, from the Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman periods. in the museum ; A total of 7,484 artifacts are on display, including 2,202 artifacts, 4,695 coins, and 587 ethnographic artifacts.
