Guide
The geology museum is in a bathhouse. The building is old enough that Evliya Çelebi counted it among Kütahya's baths when he visited the city in 1671-72; it was restored and, with the ministry's permission, opened on 25 April 2008 as a geology museum run by Kütahya municipality with private-museum status.
The subject is what is under the ground here, and the provincial directorate's figures explain why Kütahya has a museum about it at all: of the 90 kinds of mineral found in the world, 57 occur in Türkiye and 35 within the boundaries of this province. The directorate states that Kütahya holds half of Türkiye's boron reserves and 7.6 per cent of its lignite, supplies a significant share of ceramic raw materials such as feldspar, quartz and kaolin, and is the only place where the refractory raw material magnesite is now produced. It has more mining licences than any other province, and thermal and geothermal resources besides.
What is displayed comes from the working industry rather than from a cabinet: material from the boron and silver works, the Seyitömer and Tuncbilek lignite operations, the nitrogen plant and the magnesite works, ornamental stones made at the municipality's handicrafts production centre, the stages of Kütahya porcelain production, and alum products from Saphane.
The museum is in the city centre, in the Börekçiler quarter. The directorate publishes no opening hours or admission price.
