Guide
The building on Kahramanmaraş Caddesi that now holds the Trabzon City Museum went up in 1963 as a branch of the Central Bank, and later served the city as the Tevfik Serdar Culture Centre. The decision to turn it into a city museum was taken in 2012, and it opened in that role on 24 February 2017.
The museum is organised by subject rather than by object type, and the subjects are the ones a visitor would want in order to read the city: the chronology of Trabzon period by period, the social life of its people, the traditions and customs and what they left in the wider culture, political and administrative history, the culture of the summer highlands, the kitchen, and the histories of health, education, sport and the local economy.
Alongside the ordinary cases, the displays lean on interactive and digital methods — staged reconstructions, digital screens, kiosks, panels and purpose-built habitats — which is what distinguishes the visit from a conventional collection hung on walls.
It opens 08:30 to 17:30, the same in summer and winter, and does not open on public holidays. Entry is charged, free for visitors over 65, and the Müzekart is not accepted here.
