İzmir Women's Museum

Women museum in İzmir

38°25′15″N 27°08′32″E / 38.42083°N 27.14222°E / 38.42083; 27.14222TypeWomen museumOwnerKonak MunicipalityWebsiteİzmir 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.

The museum building is a three floor-historical building in Tilkilik neighborhood. With a bay window it is a typical İzmir house. It was opened on 23 January 2014. During the opening ceremony, Konak mayor Hakan Tartan said that the municipality takes side with women.^{[citation needed]}

Museum has a total of 13 rooms.^[1] In the ground floor, there is a photo of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey dancing with his adopted daughter Nebile 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 in 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 with narratation.^[2] In the upper floor there is also a collection room with documents and tools both from the Ottoman and the Republican era.

References

^ "İzmir Women's Museum". Visit İzmir. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
^ ^a ^b Konak Municipality page (in Turkish)

External links

Media related to İzmir Women's Museum at Wikimedia Commons

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Known as Smyrna in English until about 1930

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