The Söğüt Ertuğrul Gazi Museum, in Söğüt in Bilecik province, is housed in a building put up at the beginning of the 1900s by the mayor Memiş Ağa as a dressing house; its exact date is not known. Such a house is thought to have served much the purpose of a dispensary.
The woodwork of the building is what draws the eye. On the front are two round-arched doors side by side, and on each of the two side walls a tall rectangular window with a triangular pediment above it. The roof is hipped and of wood, covered with pantiles.
The building was restored in the manner of the old Turkish house and opened as a museum in 2001. What is shown here are ethnographic works and objects belonging to Söğüt and its surroundings and to the nomadic Yörük people living in the country around.
The museum also holds a banner, old clothing and dress, handwoven kilims and carpets, weapons, measures and scales, towels and purses, and archaeological material: coins of the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods and Roman earthenware.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Bilecik as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 2.6 °C in January to 22.2 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (55 mm) and lightest in August (13 mm). Long-term means for 1939-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
Visiting hours
- Hours
- 08:30 - 17:30, closed Monday
