Erzurum is cold enough for this to work: the Ata ice museum at Atatürk University is built around sculpture and other objects made of ice, and the provincial directorate calls it the first and only ice museum in Türkiye. Its works draw visitors from Türkiye and abroad.
What is shown is ice worked as a material, turned into delicate shapes in a manner that, as the directorate puts it, blends traditional art with modern. The museum presents this as an experience at once artistic and cultural, with something to remember for visitors of every age.
It stands on the Atatürk University campus in Yakutiye, behind the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- 09:00 - 12:00 and 13:30 - 16:30 on weekdays, 12:00 - 16:00 at weekends
When to go
- Climate
- Across Erzurum as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -9.1 °C in January to 19.6 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in July and August; rainfall is heaviest in May (73 mm) and lightest in August (18 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
