The Anadolu Architecture and Furniture Cultural Heritage Museum and Research Centre opened on 25 December 2008 and is described by its founders as the first architecture and furniture museum in Türkiye. It occupies the Merik Mansion, known locally as the Altın Köşk, the golden pavilion.
The unusual thing here is that the building is itself the principal exhibit. It was designed as a compound of Anatolian architectural tradition: a thousand forms and motifs that became emblematic of the interiors and exteriors of Anatolian building, drawn as examples from thirty structures — pavilions, mansions, palaces, mosques and houses — and assembled into one house.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Ankara as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.4 °C in January to 23.6 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (52 mm) and lightest in August (13 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
