İşbank Museum is a museum in

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. The official name of the museum is "Economic Independence Museum" (''Türkiye İş Bankası İktisadi Bağımsızlık Müzesi''). This is the second museum of the bank the first being the İşbank Museum in

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. The museum is in

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facing the Victory Monument at .

Building

The five-stories-high building was built in 1929 as the headquarters of

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(''İşbank'' for short). Its architect was Giulio Mongeri. Later, it was also used as the Ankara Ulus Heykel branch office of the bank. However, the area around Ulus square was planned as a cultural center of Ankara with such museums as the

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and the War of Independence Museum. The executive board of the bank decided to convert the building into a museum as a part of the cultural center.

Museum

The museum was opened on 2 May 2019. The creators of the museum were Burçak Madran and Emre Senan and the consultant is Professor Zafer Toprak. Füsun Tümsavaş, the chairperson of the executive board and Adnan Bali the general director hosted the Minister of Culture and Tourism during the opening ceremony.Dünya newspaper
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. The original safe deposit boxes are displayed in the basement and the bank tellers' offices are displayed in the ground floor. There is a book store next to the main gate. The historical meeting rooms, as well as an oil painting of Kurt Bullent, are on the first floor. One of the meeting rooms is a room which hosted

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, the founder of Turkey, during his visit to the bank. In the second floor various documents and early banking commercials are displayed. The third floor is reserved for art exhibitions and the fourth floor which is called permanent exhibition is reserved for the

Turkish War of Independence , strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...

. The fifth floor is planned for future activities.

Visiting hours

The museum is open every day except Mondays between 10:00–18:00.Official page of the museum
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Gallery

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References

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