This museum in central Amasya is named after Şeyh Hamdullah, a native of the city who is counted among the first figures to have given direction to hüsn-ü hat, the art of fine writing within the Turkish-Islamic tradition, and who is known by the title Reis-ül Hattat, chief of the calligraphers. Examples of the art are displayed here.
The museum does not stop at calligraphy itself. It sets out how writing developed among the Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Hittites and other civilisations, and shows the stages of the crafts that grew up around the written page — bookbinding, marbling and illumination.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Amasya as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 2.7 °C in January to 23.9 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (55 mm) and lightest in August (10 mm). Long-term means for 1961-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
