Tire City Museum

Tire City Museum is located in Tire ilçe (district) in İzmir Province, Turkey, at 38°05′18″N 27°43′56″E. The building is the former city hall of Tire. It was built in 1955. After the construction of a newer building for the municipality, the former building was restored and opened as Tire City Museum on 15 October 2014. [1]

Tire City Museum
Tire Kent Müzesi
Tire City Museum
Established2014 (2014)
LocationTire, İzmir Province, Turkey
Coordinates38°05′18″N 27°43′56″E
TypeEthnography, memorial
Website

Sections

The sections of the museum are as follows:[1]

  • Entrance and the upper aisle: Tire etymology and history, Tire municipality and former mayors, Hakan Sepici's collections
  • Lower aisle: ethnography (clothes, bath material)
  • First hall: famous people of Tire origin such as Seha Gidel, Fuat Mensi Dileksiz, Tanju Okan, Gönül Duman, and Nejat Uygur
  • Second hall and the market: endangered handicrafts
  • Third hall: annually changing exhibits (in 2016, archaeology)
  • Fourth hall: food culture, copperworks, pharmacy, clock repairing

References

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