This private museum in the Gökçebey district of Zonguldak was created by Çanakçılar Seramik, the ceramics company operating there. The ground floor holds a showroom of the products made at the ceramics factory, and the archaeological and ethnographic objects are on the second floor.
The setting is unusual: the museum building stands within a large zoo holding a considerable number of domestic and wild animals, so a visit takes in both. It is at the entrance to Gökçebey, about seven minutes by taxi from the town centre and three minutes off the Ankara-Zonguldak road.
Getting there
- Access
- On the way into Gökçebey, seven minutes from the centre by taxi and three minutes off the Ankara-Zonguldak road.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Zonguldak as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.3 °C in January to 22.1 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (154 mm) and lightest in May (55 mm). Long-term means for 1938-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
