Uluborlu's museum opened on 23 June 2007 as a branch of the Isparta Museum, on the ground and first floors of the town's culture building -- two floors of 108 square metres each, with an outdoor display in the garden on the west side.
Its subject is what the town made. Uluborlu ironwork and coppersmithing have been known in the surrounding towns for two centuries, according to the museum, for how strong and how sharp they were; the smithing case holds door locks that no duplicate key could open, harness sets, and a range of iron and copper tools.
The other cases follow the household. Kitchen, bath and ablution culture brings together tinned copper trays, plates, pails and bowls, horn spoons, a brass tea samovar heated with charcoal, copper ewers for heating bathwater, bath bowls and hand-woven towels. The women's case holds a gold-thread bridal dress, a bindalli gown, an everyday jacket-and-trousers set, printed headscarves, brow ornaments, necklaces and side-locks, filigree and silver-worked belt buckles. The men's case is 19th-century: weapons, weights and measures, lighting equipment, jackets, sashes, trousers and wool socks, amber prayer beads and cigarette holders, a watch on a chain, purses, rifles, canteens, powder flasks, daggers and the single-edged swords called yatagan.
Weaving has its own case, from spinning-wheel reels and the hand spindles called kirmen to the carder's mallet, shuttles, and the beaters, shears and knives of carpet weaving. A ceramics and coffee case holds 19th-century kitchen ware -- tiled and green-glazed vessels, a jug of the type known as Çanakkale ware, porcelain plates. Agricultural and musical equipment are shown alongside, and stone works stand in the garden.
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- 08:30–17:30 (all year)
When to go
- Climate
- Across Isparta as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 1.9 °C in January to 23.5 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (86 mm) and lightest in August (14 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
