The museum is in Ormana, a village in the İbradı district of Antalya, and it exists because of one man who came home. Ahmet Ağa, of the Keleşoğlu family of Ormana, was the last commander of the 56th orta of the Janissary corps; when Mahmud II abolished the corps on 15 June 1826 in the events known as the Vaka-i Hayriye, he returned from İstanbul to his own village.
The name was chosen deliberately. The Ottoman state's first museum was a Janissary Museum on the Sultanahmet square in İstanbul, and it has not survived; the gallery building here was given that name to keep it in use.
The museum was founded by the Ahmet-Zerrin Ellialtıoğlu Foundation. Admission is charged.
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- 10:00 - 18:00, closed Monday
When to go
- Climate
- Across Antalya as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 10.1 °C in January to 28.6 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, October and November; rainfall is heaviest in December (251 mm) and lightest in August (4 mm). Long-term means for 1930-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
