İzmit Municipality opened this museum on 30 August 2022, the hundredth anniversary of the Great Offensive, and by its fourth year it had taken in some 80,500 visitors. It sets out the War of Independence on two scales at once, the national one and İzmit's own part in it.
The objects are those of the fighting -- weapons, cartridges and medals of the period -- shown with photographs of the figures of the struggle and explanatory material. The museum occupies a historic building, and the garden of that building is used through the year for commemorations, concerts, talks and children's programmes.
Groups are asked to book in advance.
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- 08:30 - 12:30 and 12:30 - 17:15 Tuesday to Friday; 09:00 - 13:00 and 14:00 - 17:45 Saturday and Sunday
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kocaeli as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.3 °C in January to 24 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (108 mm) and lightest in August (42 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
