İzmir Women's Museum is a museum in

İzmir İzmir is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. It is on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of İzmir Province. In 2024, the city of İzmir had ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. It is at 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.

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İzmir Women's Museum is a museum in

. It is at 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 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. The museum has a total of 13 rooms. In the ground floor, there is a photo of

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death an ...

, 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. 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. In the upper floor there is also a collection room with documents and tools both from the Ottoman and the Republican era.

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Konak District Museums in İzmir Museums established in 2014 Women's museums in Turkey {{DEFAULTSORT:İzmir Women's Museum