The idea of establishing a museum in Ödemiş, which is located on a fertile plain watered by the Bozdağlar River in the north and Küçük Menderes River lying between Aydın Mountains in the south, began to form in 1974. The first attempt was made to establish the museum with the collection of the ancient artifactor Mutahhar Bağoğlu, one of which is 1816 m² and the other one is 956 m² and its total area is 2772 m².
The construction of the museum building began in 1977 and was completed in 1983. Before the construction of Ödemiş Museum, the artifacts belonging to the region had been preserved in İzmir Archeology Museum and Tire Museum. Following the construction of the museum, these works were taken over from both museums. On the other hand, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts and coin samples were chosen from various museums and brought to Ödemiş Museum.
The museum consists of one hall which is only a basement which is given the shape of a tent . In addition to the ethnographic materials, archaeological artifacts belonging to the region are exhibited in the building, which was built as an Ethnography Museum. In the archaeological section; the majority were dating to the Early Bronze Age (BC). . These works are ; ceramics, idols, chisels and axes, oil lamps, bronze works, glass artifacts, ornaments, terracotta figurines, marble sculptures and figurines.
There are also 12,278 coins belonging to the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman periods. In the ethnographic section; various weapons, copper and silver items, glass artifacts, ornaments, hand embroideries and clothing samples are exhibited. Examples of handicrafts from the Republican period of Türkiye are also available at the museum.
In the Ödemiş Museum, a group of archaeological and ethnographic works donated by the collector Mutahhar Başoğlu has a total of 16,416 works, and 1,485 of them are exhibited.