Guide
The Rize Museum — also called the Rize Ethnography Museum, the Tuzcuoğlu mansion, or by the name it is best known by, the Yellow House — has worked since 27 June 1998 in a building in the Piriçelebi quarter of central Rize, put up in the nineteenth century as an example of domestic architecture of that period.
The mansion reflects the architectural fabric of the eastern Black Sea. It served as an Atatürk House from 1984 and was given its new function as a museum in 1998.
The building has a basement and two floors. The basement, used as a store or stable in the days when the building was a mansion, now holds display cases; the first floor, where the kitchen and guest rooms were, is arranged as the administrative floor of the Rize directorate; the second floor is laid out as living space.
Traditional building techniques and materials were used in its construction. The walls are built in the technique of coursed stone with timber and infill between, and the hipped roofs are covered with alaturka tiles.
