The Tire City Museum occupies the town's old municipal building at Atatürk Caddesi No. 2 in the Yenimahalle quarter. The building was put up in 1955, and when the municipality moved to another building in 2014 it was turned into a museum and opened to visitors on 15 October that year. It is run by the municipality.
The basement of the old municipal building is given over to a cinema hall. The museum itself begins with the corridor on the ground floor, where the history of Tire and its former mayors are presented, followed by photographs of well-known people from Tire and various ethnographic material. At the lower end of the corridor stands a car used by the mayor in the 1940s.
The halls hold sections devoted to trades, some of them dying out: handicrafts, the culture of food and drink, sporting activity, the culture of water and the bath, barbering, tailoring, shoemaking and photography. Some sections use mannequins; in others craftsmen are actually at work. In the garden are busts of well-known Turkish figures.
When to go
- Climate
- Across İzmir as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 8.9 °C in January to 28 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (146 mm) and lightest in July (4 mm). Long-term means for 1938-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
Visiting hours
- Hours
- 08:30 - 17:30
