BURSA MUSEUMS 1

BURSA CITY MUSEUM

Opened on 14 February 2004, Bursa City Museum is a private museum established by Bursa Metropolitan Municipality to protect and promote the cultural, historical, social and economic accumulation of the city and to guide the citizens of tomorrow.

The museum operates in the Courthouse and Finance (Defterdarlık) buildings, which were built in 1926 by architect Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi in the I. National Architecture Movement Style. Bursa City

Museum, where all kinds of documents, objects, books, visual materials, audio and video recordings related to Bursa are collected, has become one of the most qualified and popular museums in Turkey with the exhibitions it has prepared since its establishment, the activities it has carried out and the educational programmes it has planned.

KARAGÖZ MUSEUM

Opened in 2007, Karagöz Museum is a special museum established by Bursa Metropolitan Municipality in order to promote the Karagöz Shadow Play Culture, which started with the construction of Bursa Orhan Mosque in 1339, and to transfer it to future generations.

Until 14 June 1997, the building used as a transformer building was transformed by the Bursa Metropolitan Municipality first into Karagöz House and then into Turkey`s first and only Karagöz Museum by reconstructing it in 2007.

ZINDAN DOOR

Dungeons are defined as closed spaces within the city walls of the Middle Ages, where corporal punishments were applied in addition to penalties restricting freedom. The history of Bursa city walls dates back to the 2nd century BC. The city walls, which were built during the reign of the Bithynian king Prusias I, continued to be used by the Romans and Byzantines and then by the Ottomans until the 19th century, undergoing repairs at various times.

There is a Bloody Well at the entrance of the building, which was brought to its feet with restoration works. According to rumours, this well is the place where bodily executions were carried out. After the well, visitors are welcomed by a permanent digital exhibition describing the historicaldetails of the city walls.

BURSA MIGRATION HISTORY MUSEUM

Bursa Museum of Migration History opened its doors to its visitors on 07.11.2014 with the aim of presenting the phenomenon of ‘migration’ that has lasted from prehistoric times to the present day in Anatolian lands, the impact it has on peoples lives and the stories left behind by migrating people

while migrating or after receiving the title of migrant  and the importance of the findings, documents and materials obtained during the period of getting used to their new lives for Bursa.

MERİNOS SAWMILL INDUSTRY MUSEUM

Merinos Textile Industry Museum, Turkey`s first and only textile industry museum, was opened on 14 October 2011. The museum aims to tell new generations about the birth and development of Bursa textile and the industrial move of the Republican period in the context of the protection of industrial heritage.

Bursa is a city suitable for the establishment of a textile factory in every aspect with its geographical conditions, climatic conditions, weaving tradition since the Ottoman Empire and qualified human potential. Merinos Woollen Weaving Factory, one of the first examples of industrialisation by the state, was opened on 2 February 1938 on a 262,000 m2 land, 15 years after the establishment of the Republic of Turkey.

BURSA MAWLAWI HOUSE AND MUSEUM

Bursa Mevlevihanesi, located on Bayramyeri Street, opposite Pınarbaşı Cemetery, one of the oldest Muslim cemeteries of the city, in the Historical Hisar Region, is one of the great dervish lodges defined as âsitane. Built in 1615 by Cünûnî Ahmed Dede on the order of Sultan Ahmed I, the lodge in question has been the refuge of those who are with Hak, those who die in the way of friends, and those who are united in the way of Allah for four centuries. Since the 20th century, the Mevlevihane buildings, which were used for different functions such as a mosque, police station, military warehouse and finally a water reservoir, were destroyed in time due to neglect and desolation. The Mevlevihane area and buildings, which were handled and rebuilt within the scope of the Bursa Metropolitan Municipalitys Historical Cultural Heritage Protection and Preservation Works, started to serve as Bursa Mevlevihane and Museum in 2023.

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