İzmir Women's Museum

İzmir Women's Museum
İzmir Kadın Müzesi
First female MPs of the Turkish Parliament (1935)
İzmir Women's Museum
Established	2014; 11 years ago (2014)
Location	1298 sok No 14, Basmane. İzmir
Coordinates	38°25′15″N 27°08′32″E / 38.42083°N 27.14222°E / 38.42083; 27.14222
Type	Women museum
Owner	Konak Municipality
Website	İzmir Women's Museum

İzmir Women's Museum is a museum in İzmir, Turkey. It is at 38°25′15″N 27°08′32″E / 38.42083°N 27.14222°E / 38.42083; 27.14222 in Konak secondary municipality of İzmir. It is the first women's museum to be established in Turkey. The museum building is a three floor-historical building in Tilkilik neighborhood. With a bay window it is a "typical" İzmir house, with a total of 13 rooms. It was opened on 23 January 2014.

History

The museum building is a three floor-historical building in the Tilkilik neighborhood. With a bay window it is a typical İzmir house, with features from European and traditional Turkish architecture. It was opened on 23 January 2014.^[2]

The museum has a total of 13 rooms.^[3] In the ground floor, there is a photo of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey dancing with his adopted daughter Nebile Hanim during the wedding ceremony of the latter. Various attire including golden-embroidery bindallı are displayed. A photo timeline of Turkish women, a library and a video room are also on the ground floor.^[2]

The masks of pioneer Turkish women such as Halide Edib Adıvar, Cahide Sonku, Afife Jale, Füreya Koral are displayed in the garden. In the garden, there is also a statue of Nazım Hikmet. The upper floor is reserved for the women's struggles, protest and boycotts presenting with a narration.^[2] In the upper floor there is also a collection room with documents and tools both from the Ottoman and the Republican era.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "First women's museums in world and Turkey". Jinha Agency. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "İzmir Kadın Müzesi". www.konak.bel.tr. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
^ "İzmir Women's Museum". Visit İzmir. Retrieved 30 April 2020.

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