Sinop's Ethnography Museum occupies the Aslantorunlar konak on Kemalettin Sami Caddesi, a house built at the end of the 18th century and an example of Ottoman domestic architecture. The culture ministry acquired it from the family's heirs, and after restoration by the Ankara directorate of survey and monuments it opened as a museum.
The house has three storeys: rubble stone in the foundations and ground floor, timber frame with brick above. Inside, the decoration shows the clear influence of western Baroque and Rococo, and that influence combined with Ottoman woodcarving produces a manner of its own.
The displays recreate the traditional life of Sinop and its region. The ground floor holds a gallery on the houses of Sinop and Boyabat, together with a kitchen and a village room; the first floor shows jewellery worn in the region, swords and weaving looms. The second floor is a wide hall with four rooms and three iwans arranged symmetrically around it, staged as the life of an Ottoman konak.
Getting there
- Access
- Reachable on foot or by city transport.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Sinop as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.8 °C in February to 23.4 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (92 mm) and lightest in July (34 mm). Long-term means for 1936-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
Visiting hours
- Hours
- 08:00–17:00 (all year)
