Three generations of one family lived in this house on Hanifioğlu Sokak, in the old Bey quarter of Gaziantep, and the house itself is worth the visit even without the displays: the cellar is cut into the bedrock, and three storeys rise above it. Nothing about it is unusual for old Antep — that is the point, since it carries all the features a house of this city was built with.
Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality restored and fitted out the house in cooperation with the Süzer family; work began in 2025 and the museum, which the municipality also calls the Hasan Süzer Marriage and Living Culture Museum, opened on 9 May 2026. A Gaziantep marriage is laid out room by room through the traditional house: the customs surrounding betrothal and wedding, the social life and the family structure they belonged to, with rooms furnished as they would have been used.
The route runs upward. In the basement is a cave section. The ground floor holds rooms on marriage through history, the kitchen, and the visits between the two families that begin the process. On the first floor come the dining, coffee and wedding rooms; on the second, the rooms of charms and ritual, the bath, and the trousseau. In a separate building in the courtyard, one room is given to the life of Hasan Süzer, the Gaziantep philanthropist the museum is named for. It is within walking distance of the city centre.
Getting there
- Access
- Within walking distance of the city centre.
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).
