Museum of TRT Broadcasting
History
As being the first and only public broadcasting
institution, The Museum of TRT Broadcasting
History is established to carry its past to the
present and revive it again. Its establishment took 4
years work of more than 200 personnel.
Museum of TRT has a structure that the process of
radio and television broadcasting is not only being
watched, but at the same time it is applicable.
The various studios prepared in the museum
aims to show the process of visual and aural
broadcastings’ progression in an applicable way.
Besides the displaying from transistor radios to
black and white screens, and comes to today’s 3D
broadcasting as the last station of broadcasting
technology, it aims to practically show the time
before broadcasting and the progress it had by
presenting the visual and audial archive witnessed
to this process.
Research library as a part of the museum shows
the visitors that the museum is not only for seeing
but there are a lot of alternatives to learn by
various education and promotion movies which
give information about the main constituents of
broadcasting.
The museum is placed in the campus of Turkish
Radio and Television Corporation General
Directorate.
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Address: General Directorate of TRT
Phone: (312) 463 28 38 Faks: (312) 463 28 48
Visiting Days: Everyday during the week
(closed during official holidays and on new year)
Open between: 10.00–17.00
Museum of Turkish Public Bath
The museum was established in order to document,
display and inherit the bath culture to the
future generations. In another words, universal
Turkish bath culture image on minds is tried to
be protected as a whole and being carried to the
future generations.The museum as being about
Turkish bath and purity culture is the first and only
museum of Turkey with regard to its subject and
its museology techniques. Besides exhibiting the
architectural characteristics of Turkish bath and
the objects used while having bath, it interprets
Turkish Public Bath culture by “henna (bride)
bath” exhibition, which illustrates the place of
Turkish baths in ceremonial life, and animations of
“mother of Turkish bath, father of Turkish bath” and
“roughneck”.
Turkish Aeronautical Association Museum
The museum was opened in Ulus is playing
host to historical buildings on May 19, 2002. The
compound of the museum consists of 287 square
meters closed area and 7295 square meters of
open air area. There is the historical parachute
tower (licensed monumental work), garden where
the original aircrafts are displayed and museum
building inside the compound. The museum
allows visitors of all age to enrich their aviation
knowledge about the Turkish Aeronautical
Assocation and the history of civil aviation in
Turkey with 747 documents and photographs
displayed in the museum. Visitors also have the
opportunity to see the cockpit of the helicopter
which is on display at the garden and can jump
out of the historical parachute tower under the
guidance of trainers.
Adresi: Hipodrom Cad. No 2 Ulus-ANK.
Phone: (312) 311 30 13 Faks: (312) 311 48 40
Visiting Days: Everyday except Mondays.
Open between: 09.00–18.00 during winter
10.00–19.00 during summer
The museum is established by the support of Ankara
Development Agency and Living Museum, and the
founder is Dr. Sema Demir who lectures “Folklore
Museology” in Gazi University Faculty of Literature.
Address: Cumhuriyet Mah. Yenice Sok. No:23
Beypazarı-ANK.
Phone: (312) 763 22 24
Visiting Days: Everyday.
Open between: 08.30–20.30
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