The museum, in which the works were optained from various places of Erzurum and neighbouring provinces exhibited was launched in the Double Minaret Medresse in 1942 and it was moved to the present building in 1967. excavations, B.C II. thousand Trans-Caucas Culture, urartu, The History, of Nature and Armenian Massacres Salon are avaible in the museum It has been used as Yakutiye Medresse, Turkish-Islamic Works and Ethnographic Museum Since 1994.