Ankara Vakıf Museum

Vakıf Museum
Ankara Vakuf Eserleri Müzesi
	Ankara Vakıf Museum building
	Location of the museum in Turkey.
Established	2007; 17 years ago
Location	Atatürk Boulevard, Ankara, Turkey
Coordinates	39°56′08″N 32°51′8″E / 39.93556°N 32.85222°E / 39.93556; 32.85222
Type	Ethnography museum
Collections	Rugs, carpets, tiles, hand written books, tiles, metal and wooden items, etc.

Vakıf Museum (Turkish: Ankara Vakıf Eserleri Müzesi) is an ethnography museum in Ankara, Turkey exhibiting endowed articles.

The museum is on Atatürk Boulevard in Ankara. It is to the south of Melike Hatun Mosque and to the east of Gençlik Parkı, the largest park of Ankara. Some of the other museums of Ankara such as Stamp Museum, Ethnography Museum of Ankara and State Art and Sculpture Museum are nearby. The museum building was built as a school building. It is an example of First national architectural movement of Turkey. Between 1928 and 1941 it was used by the School of Law and after 1941, it was used as the Girls’ vocational school. In 2004 it was restored and on 7 May 2007 it was opened as a museum.^[1]

Exhibitions

Vakıf means "charitable foundation" and the museum is dedicated to ethnographic endowments. In the ground floor, rugs and carpets as well as various tools in carpet weaving are exhibited. In the upper floor, hand written books, tiles, metal and wooden items are on display. Relatively more recent items such as clocks and 19th-century cameras are also a part of the museum collection.^[2]^[3]

Gallery

Ankara Vakıf Museum tiles
Ankara Vakıf Museum metal works
Ankara Vakıf Museum wooden work
Ankara Vakıf Museum General view
Ankara Vakıf Museum Dervish poem
Ankara Vakıf Museum Silsile
Ankara Vakıf Museum Kilim
Ankara Vakıf Museum Zili
Ankara Vakıf Museum Window shutters
Ankara Vakıf Museum Window shutter
Ankara Vakıf Museum Divriği woodwork
Ankara Vakıf Museum Divriği woodwork
Ankara Vakıf Museum Village interior

External links

100+ pictures

References

^ Culture portal (in Turkish)
^ Museum booklet
^ Museum assist page (in Turkish)

[1] Culture portal (in Turkish)

[2] Museum booklet

[3] Museum assist page (in Turkish)

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