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İzmir Atatürk Museum
Atatürk Museum, located at Kordonboyu, is built between the years 1875 - 1880. The museum building is in neoclassical style. It consists of a basement, in addition of a ground, 1st and roof levels. The floor of the whole ground level is covered with large size marble plates.
In the main hall, there are marble statues, a crystal mirror and a bust of Atatürk on the floor and in the niches to the left and right. Magnificent fireplaces in the style of 19th century are built in the rooms on the left and right. At the head of the stairs climbing to the first level are two bronze statuettes of knights, doubling as fixtures. A portrait of Atatürk is placed at the landing at the top of the stairs. Open all week except mondays, between 09:00 - 12:00 am / 01:00 - 05:00 pm.
Railroad Museum
Opposite to the Alsancak Train Station, the floor level of a stone building at the same age with the railroads in Turkey serves as a museum. The second floor of this building serves as an art gallery. At the museum which is in the arrangement phase, the equipment, tools used in the stations and trains are in display, as well as the uniforms and equipment of the personnel, starting with the earliest days. Visitors are not forced to look at the exhibits behind a glass partition; they can see them open, and even touch and feel them. The gallery at the upper floor also doubles by hosting workshops with training and research characteristics. Open during weekdays, between 09:00 - 12:00 am / 01:00 - 05:00 pm.
Selçuk Yaşar Museum of Arts
Established to the name of Selçuk Yaşar, a businessman of İzmir the museum is located inside an old İzmir mansion at Alsancak. The entrance level of the museum is used for various exhibitions for paintings. The upper floor is dedicated to the permanent display of the pieces of the museum. Some of the pieces in the museum were painted by Selçuk Yaşar himself and some are prize winners in the DYO Painting Contests held since 1967. Open weekdays, between 10:30 am - 06:30 pm & saturday between 12:00 am - 06:00 pm.
İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Ahmet Piriştina Museum of Metropolitan History and Archive
The historical building, after serving many years to İzmir as the office of the Fire Department, was resto-rated to become the Museum of Metropolitan History and Archive. At the entrance of the museum, there are many photographs, drawings and explanations about the history of the phases of the settlement since 5,000 years ago, particularly from the times of Smyrna onwards.
Some parts of the entrance floor are dedicated to permanent, and the other parts for temporary exhibitions. There are multipurpose conference, research, and drama halls, offices, a restaurant and a cafeteria inside the building. Open all week except sundays, between 08:30 am - 05:30 pm.
İzmir Museum of Commercial History
This is the first commercial history museum in Turkey. The entrance is free to the museum established by İzmir Chamber of Commerce. The first item catching the eye in the entrance is a model of a trading ship which belongs to the 1st century AD. There are many ceramics, earthenware statuettes, seals, glass ware, gold, silver and bronze coins inside the displays, in chronological order, belonging to prehistoric, archaic, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine eras. Additionally, the museum displays balances and calculators belonging to Ottoman life of commerce, and photographs depicting the commercial life at İzmirin the later times. Open weekdays, between 09:00 - 12:00 am / 01:00 - 05:00 pm.
İzmir Museum of History and Arts
İzmir Museum of History and Arts is a modern museum in which the latest techniques of display and a contemporary approach are employed. It consists of three separate buildings. At the entrance, stone artifacts are displayed in the right-hand side building, ceramic artifacts in the middle one, and valuable artifacts in the left-hand side building. İzmir Museum of History and Arts is also in a position with which it can provide a larger participation to the cultural and artistic activities by taking part in the exhibitions concerning temporary arts. Open all week except mondays, between 08:30 - 12:00 am / 01:00 - 05:30 pm.
İzmir Agora Open Air Museum
Etymologically, agora means the city alley, marketplace, and shopping place. With commercial, legislative, religious and political functions, it is the place where the arts gain a focus, the philosophy grows, the stoas, monuments, altars, and statues are placed. It is the heart of trade. The works at Agora are under way in five places currently. Excavation, restoration, archeological cleaning, and peripheral arrangement are being performed under the basilica at the northern gate, at the western part (stoa), and in the antic marketplace. The most important result of these works is the discovery of the northern gate of the Agora.
The relief unearthed here, belonging to Goddess Vesta, is understood to be the continuation of the Zeus Altar discovered during the initial excavations. In addition, statues of Hermes Dionysos, Eros, and Herakles, as well as many statues belonging to men, women and animals, heads, reliefs, figurines and marble, stone, bone, glass, metal, and earthenware artifacts are discovered here. Open all week between 08:30 am - 05:00 pm.
İzmir Museum of Arts and Sculpture
İzmir Museum of Arts and Sculpture was opened as a gallery in 1952, inside the Kültürpark. The gallery part of the museum is located inside the former Italian Pavilion, with the administrative offices, workshop, display hall, and library located at the main building at Konak.
There are over 400 pieces (approximately 350 paintings, 25 statues, 12 ceramics, and 24 reprints) on display at the museum. The collection includes pieces belonging great masters including Şeker Ahmet Paşa, Hoca Ali Rıza, Hikmet Onat, İbrahim Çallı, Elif Naci, Balaban, Nedim Günsur, B. Rahmi Eyüboğlu, as well as selections from famous artists from various times, and is being enriched continuously.
Many books in the library of the museum, on the subject of arts and art history, are open to the use of researchers and students. Training programs for design, painting, ceramics, water coloring, sculpturing, and traditional handcrafts in the workshop. Those who follow these programs are awarded a certificate after the second year. During the weekends, the primary school students are also accepted to the training programs. Open all week except sundays, between 09:00 am - 06:00 pm.
İzmir Ethnographical Museum
Built in neoclassical style in the 19th century, the museum building consists of a ground floor and three stories. The 1st and 2nd floors are used as display halls, and the 3rd floor is reserved for storage, laboratory, photographic studio and offices. The museum is targeted to display cross sections from the social life of İzmir and its environs during the 19th century. Consequently, the museum displays many pieces depicting extinct or near extinct handicrafts due to the industrialization, such as, tinsmithery, clog making, pottery, blue bead making, wood imprinting, carpet weaving, rope making, feltsmithery and saddlery. Open all week except mondays, between 08:30 am - 05:30 pm.
Archeological Museum of İzmir
Archeological Museum of Izmir has opened its gates to visitors at 1 February 1984. The museum is arranged to cater for all requirements with its display halls, laboratories, storage rooms, photography laboratory, library, and conference hall. Over 1500 pieces are on display inside the building and in the garden. The pieces are displayed in sections inside the 3 story building.
Archeological heritage belonging to the antique cities of Iasos, Çandarlı (Pitane), Bergama,Bayraklı (Old İzmir); Iasos dig ceramic foundings out of terracotta from prehistoric times dated3rd thousand BC, hydrias from the Hellenistic Age, various pots, glass vases, bottles, masks,figurines, Myrina (Aliağa) Eros figurines are displayed at the museum. In addition, decorativeobjects, glass objects, coins and a bronze Demeter sculpture are displayed at the Treasury Hall. In the middle floor which is the entrance floor of the museum, marble works are exhibited. Sculpture works; large statues, busts, portraits and masks dated from the Archaic Age to the end of the Roman Age are displayed. Open all week except mondays, between 08:30 am - 05:30 pm.
Selçuk Ephesus Museum
Ephesus Museum is one of Turkey's most important museums, with its cultural activities, important pieces from Ephesus and its environs during the Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman eras, and also with its capacity of visitors. The Ephesus museum was built for storage purposes after the initial excavations at Ephesus in 1929. Afterwards, it was enlarged by the construction of a new annex in 1964, and enlargement has continued by rearrangements and new annexes.
Due to the fact that the museum is used to display mainly the findings from a single archaic city, the display of the pieces according to the location of their discovery, instead of a chronological or typological order is preferred. Consequently, the halls are named as Hill Houses and Household Findings, Coins and Treasury, Tomb Findings, Ephesus Artemis, and Emperor Cults. In addition to these halls, various architectural and sculpture artifacts are displayed in harmony with the garden layout, in the inner and central gardens of the museum. Two huge Artemis statues, Head of Eros, a young Eros - riding a delphine statuette and Head of Socrates, are some of the internationally renowned pieces of the Ephesus Museum. Open all week between 08:30 am - 05:30 pm.
Bergama Museum
The museum building consists of a wide rectangular court surrounded by galleries, and at the rear of this court, a display hall with a rectangular shape. The galleries around the court are suitable for open air display; therefore many pieces are displayed there. After the establishment of the Ethnographical and Archeological Museum in 1924, the archeological pieces were moved to the new museum building.
From the Early Bronze Age to the Byzantine Era, a large majority of the pieces on display in the museum are discovered during the excavations made in Bergama and its environs. Among the findings obtained from neighbouring settlement places are examples of Pergamonian sculpture, Archaic Era pieces coming from Pitane and Gryneion, and Myrina terracottas. In the ethnographical section of the museum, examples of carpets, rugs, clothes, and handicrafts which belong to the region as well as to other parts of Anatolia are displayed. Open all week except mondays, between 08:30 am - 05:30 pm.
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