The museum is the timber house where Kemal Samancıoğlu, one of Bartın's former mayors, was born and lived; it now serves as an ethnography museum.
Alongside his own belongings it holds about 700 ethnographic objects donated by families from Bartın.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Bartın as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 4.2 °C in January to 22.1 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (133 mm) and lightest in May (54 mm). Long-term means for 1961-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
