The Eskişehir Chamber of Commerce built this museum around a single question: how the city came to trade and manufacture what it does. It occupies a three-storey registered mansion in Odunpazarı, the old quarter Eskişehir is known for, and the collection was put together largely from objects and documents given by the chamber's own members — the tradesmen, merchants and industrialists of long-established local firms.
Alongside those company holdings the chamber says the museum presents the figures and objects it treats as landmarks in the city's commercial past: the Phrygian king Midas, whose name it ties to commercial shrewdness; Ali Osman Denizköpüğü, one of the first masters of meerschaum, the stone Eskişehir is carved from; Nasreddin Hoca; the Phrygian cult monument at Yazılıkaya; Karakurt, the first locomotive built in the city; Devrim, the first car of domestic manufacture; and the first Ottoman coin together with coins struck locally.
The address is Paşa Mahallesi, Işıklar Sokak No. 7. Visits can be booked through the museum's website.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Eskişehir as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.2 °C in January to 22.1 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in April (44 mm) and lightest in August (11 mm). Long-term means for 1991-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
