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W O R K S A N D
E T H N O G R A P
H Y M U S E U M
RABIA ANA MAHALLESI,
CUMHURIYET CAD
Until recent times , there were additional buildings
around the madrasa , which were used as barracks . In
1970s and 1980s , these additional buildings were
destroyed and its surrounding was re - arranged . The
madrasa , whose restoration continued from 1984 to 1994 ,
was opened to the public as the Turkish - Islamic Works
and Ethnography Museum on October 29th 1994 as a
unit connected to the Erzurum Museum Directorate .
Ethnographic works relating to the regional culture and
art are being exhibited in the museum .
Sections in the Museum
1 - Section of Women Jewellery and Clothes Caps , rings ,
hairpins , rings , earrings , Jewellery boxes , bindallı
clothes , etc are exhibited .
2 - War Tools Section : War tools used in the Ottoman
Period and in the first times of Republic such as rifles ,
pistols , swords , gunpowder boxes , binoculars , oilcans are
exhibited .
3 - Section of Men Jewellery and Pleasure Works Belts
and Jewellery belonging to the Ottoman Period and first
years of the Republic , tobacco boxes , watch chains ,
rings and armlets are exhibited .
4 - Metal Works Section Tombak long spouted ewer and
washtub , gold inlaid ornamented long spouted ewers ,
recovery pots , plates , etc works can be seen in this
section .
5 - Weaving Section The pilgrim clothes are introduced
with their new styles in order to improve and spread the
pilgrim cloth production that is one of the traditional
hand arts of the region and that is disappearing because
of the declining use area .
6 - Carpet and Kilim Section The samples of carpet and
kilim weaving , which is a hand art introduced to the
world by the Turks , belonging to the Eastern Anatolian
Region are exhibited .