Guide
This is a museum you are meant to do things in rather than walk through. The municipality calls it a living heritage museum and the programme bears that out: traditional children's games are taught, tales, folk verses, sayings and riddles are performed in settings built for practice rather than display, Karagöz shadow plays are staged, and visitors can try traditional linden block printing and marbling for themselves.
One room is given over to the Boyabat çember, the registered local headscarf, and explains what the motifs woven into it mean and how the weaving is done. The rest of the display follows the district's own way of living, from folk belief to kitchen practice, and the rites that mark birth, marriage and death. Days in the traditional calendar such as hıdrellez, the çiğdem custom and aşure are marked with events.
It occupies a historic Boyabat house. Work on the project began in 2018, restoration started that November, and the museum opened in August 2020. On the municipality's application it was granted museum status by the Ministry of Culture in 2021 and came under ministry inspection, carried out at least once a year, and it has taken an award in the Historic Towns Union's museum competition.
The municipality records 173 registered items in the collection alongside its fixtures, and describes the museum as one of the seven applied folklore museums in Türkiye, one of the two in the Black Sea region, and the first private museum founded in Sinop province.
