The Yıldız Urban Archive and Museum in Ödemiş opened on 25 February 2012, and it is three things at once: a museum, an archive and a library, run by the municipality.
It occupies the upper and lower floors of the old Yıldız Hotel — fourteen rooms and four corridors — together with one room on the ground floor of the Keçecizade Han and a 155-square-metre exhibition hall. Two-thirds of the collection is on show at any time, in glazed cases through some 455 square metres of rooms, corridors and hall, and in the open in the inner courtyard.
The numbers give the scale. The museum holds at least 6,219 movable cultural objects. The archive holds 20,815 documents across 29 collections. The library runs to 3,619 catalogued books, split between a general library, a periodicals and newspapers library, a dictionary library, the Savaş and Recep Bassoy library, and a thesis library. Objects come in by donation and by purchase.
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).
