The İnebolu City Museum occupies a building that was put up as a medrese in 1882 by Abdurrahman Paşa, then governor of Kastamonu, on the instruction of Sultan Abdülhamid II. For many years afterwards it housed the İnebolu municipality.
It nearly did not survive. Fire went through the building in 1996, it was emptied in 1997, and it stood derelict for years before restoration began in 2013. Work finished in 2014, and the building reopened as a museum whose declared purpose is to hold the town's historical and cultural memory and pass it on.
Its full name — the İnebolu City Museum on the Road to Liberation — points at what the town is remembered for, the supply route that ran inland from this coast during the War of Independence. The restoration and the museum have both been recognised repeatedly since, in awards given by the Union of Historical Towns between 2009 and 2017 and in the 2017 Turkish city awards, where it was named city museum of the year.
İnebolu is 95 kilometres from Kastamonu, about an hour and a quarter by road.
Getting there
- Access
- Kastamonu to İnebolu is ninety-five kilometres, about an hour and a quarter.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kastamonu as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -0.9 °C in January to 20.2 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (75 mm) and lightest in February (27 mm). Long-term means for 1930-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
