The Game and Toy Museum of Gaziantep fills a single-courtyard Antep house in the old Bey quarter with several hundred toys: handmade pieces dating from between 1700 and 1990 alongside first-run figures of cartoon, film and fairy-tale characters. The metropolitan municipality restored the house and opened it on 6 April 2013, and both the municipality and the Ministry count it as one of four toy museums in Türkiye.
The toys are arranged in eight galleries and are not only Turkish — Germany, Japan, Argentina, England, France, China and the United States are all represented. The museum was founded under the curatorship of Sunay Akın. The part children tend to remember is a two-storey cave built on the theme of the children of the world, and there is a dedicated area where toy workshops and other events for children are run. Statues of children at play stand along the street outside, on Hanifi Oğlu Sokak in the Bey quarter of Şahinbey.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Gaziantep as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 3.2 °C in January to 28.1 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in January (103 mm) and lightest in August (5 mm). Long-term means for 1940-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
