Guide
The building that houses the Tunceli Museum was assigned for the purpose by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2015. The museum directorate was established in 2019, and after restoration the museum opened to visitors on 24 December 2020.
The building was put up between 1935 and 1937 as a military barracks and used as such until 1949, when it passed to the Ministry of Finance. From 1949 to 1990 it served as housing for civil servants, and about sixty-five families were living in it until February 2015. It was registered by the Erzurum regional conservation board because it carries the character of the early republican period.
The restored building is square, with 5,800 square metres under roof: three storeys on the north front and two on the east, west and south. Built in a German architectural manner, it has a courtyard of 1,800 square metres laid out so that concerts, theatre, talks and other events can be held in it.
The museum runs through six rooms telling the story of human life from prehistory to the present with texts, images, dioramas and reconstructions: the archaeology and coin section, the ethnography section, the hall of traditional agriculture and of flora and fauna, the hall of belief and culture, the hall of stone works, and the section of works of the early republican period.
