The Museum of the Turkish Grain Board — Toprak Mahsulleri Ofisi Müzesi, the TMO Museum for short — stands in the Yenimahalle district of Ankara and is a museum of an institution's history and of agriculture. It opened in 2009, belongs to the TMO and is supervised by the Directorate of the Ankara Ethnography Museum.
The museum displays the tools and implements used in agriculture in Türkiye from the past to the present, together with historical photographs. Most of these objects were gathered from different cities of the country and from the provincial organisations through which the TMO has worked since 1938.
A monument called Hasat Sonu — the end of the harvest — by the artist Burhan Alkar stands in the museum garden.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Ankara as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.4 °C in January to 23.6 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (52 mm) and lightest in August (13 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
