Tire City Museum is located in Tire ilçe (district) in İzmir Province, Turkey, at 38°05′18″N 27°43′56″E / 38.08833°N 27.73222°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 Kent Müzesi | |
  Tire City Museum | |
| Established | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Location | Tire, İzmir Province, Turkey |
| Coordinates | 38°05′18″N 27°43′56″E / 38.08833°N 27.73222°E |
| Type | Ethnography, memorial |
| Website | [1] |
Sections
editThe 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
edit- ^ a b Museum page