Places to visit

Things to do in Ankara

60 destinations, each with a description, how long it takes and where it sits on the map.

In short

toroti’s catalogue holds 60 described destinations within Ankara. The themes that come up most: Nature, Museum, Culture, History, Faith heritage, Local culture.

Seğmenler Parkı

The park, opened in 1983 in the Kavaklıdere district, has a large amphitheater. The park, located in the valley between Atatürk Bulvarı and İran Caddesi, has a 40 thousand square meter lawn area and a 250 square meter children's playground area, and totals 57 thousand 250 square meters. It contains pools, a children's garden, واسعة walking areas, and the Seymenler Monument, which is the symbol of Ankara folklore.

45 minutes

Türk Hava Kurumu Müzesi

This museum was planned with the aim of showing the stages of progress of Turkish Aviation and passing this on to future generations. In the Türk Hava Kurumu Müzesi, built next to the historic parachute tower, in addition to the history section where the firsts of Turkish Aviation are explained, extensive information about THK is also included. This information is supported by historical documents, photographs and various models.

45 minutes

Prof. Dr. Ülker Muncuk Müzesi

It was established in 1974 within the aforementioned school under the leadership of a group of idealist teachers of the Girls' Technical Higher Teachers' School and Ülker Muncuk. The museum began operating on 02.07.1982 as a private museum under the supervision of the Directorate of the Ethnography Museum.

45 minutes

Kurtuluş Savaşı Müzesi

Kurtuluş Savaşı Müzesi

War of Independence Museum (First TBMM Building) History of the First Grand National Assembly of Turkey Building The building used as the First Grand National Assembly of Turkey building was constructed in its time as a party building. In 1916, it was decided to build it as the Committee of Union and Progress building. By order of Minister of War Enver Pasha, the building was designed by Architect Salim Bey, and the construction work of the project was assigned to Military Architect Hasip Bey.

45 minutes

Atatürk Konutu Ve Demiryollari Müzesi

Atatürk Konutu Ve Demiryollari Müzesi

One of the few state buildings in Ankara during the War of Independence, the “Direksiyon Binası” continues to be a living witness to the national struggle. When you visit this building, where important historical decisions were made, you will take a journey through time to the years of struggle and witness the spirit of the years when the Republic was founded.

45 minutes

Ankara Resim Ve Heykel Müzesi

Ankara Resim Ve Heykel Müzesi

The Ankara Painting and Sculpture Museum building, one of the most magnificent structures of the First National Architecture Period, was built between 1927-1930 as the “Türk Ocakları Merkez Binası”. In the competition opened in 1926, the project of Architect Arif Hikmet Koyunoğlu, who built the Ethnography Museum on Namazgâh Tepesi under Atatürk’s instructions, won first place and construction of the building began. Thus, the silhouette of the Hill, located in the very heart of Ankara, extending to the present day, was shaped.

45 minutes

Gordion Antik Kenti

Gordion Antik Kenti

Gordion Ancient City, one of the most important archaeological sites of Anatolia, was inscribed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO in 2023. Servet Uygun Gordion Ancient City is located in the Central Anatolia Region, approximately 90 kilometers southwest of Ankara city center and approximately 18 kilometers northwest of Polatlı district, in the Yassıhöyük neighborhood. Over a long period of 4500 years, settlement in and around Gordion was interrupted very little.

45 minutes

İŞ Bankası İktisadi Bağimsizlik Müzesi

İŞ Bankası İktisadi Bağimsizlik Müzesi

Founded in 1924 by Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Türkiye İş Bankası transformed the historic building in Ankara Ulus into the İş Bankası Museum of Economic Independence in order to share with society the accumulation it has built up to date, which is of great importance in terms of national economic history. The museum was given the name “Türkiye İş Bankası Museum of Economic Independence” within the framework of the vision of Atatürk, the founder of the Bank, that military victories can only be lasting with economic victories.

45 minutes

Arslanhane (ahi Şerafettin) Camii

Arslanhane (ahi Şerafettin) Camii

Ahi Şerafettin Mosque is located in Ulus Samanpazarı, at the southern end of Ankara Castle. It is among the most important examples of Anatolia’s medieval wooden-columned and beam-roofed mosques. Altındağ Municipality, Abdullah Durman Mosque is also referred to as Arslanhane Mosque because of the lion statue dating from antiquity embedded in the wall of the tomb complex to its east. Altındağ Municipality, Abdullah Durman Mosque has no construction inscription.

45 minutes

Harikalar Diyari

Harikalar Diyari

Within Harikalar Diyarı, which is planned with approximately 771 thousand square meters of green area, 330 thousand square meters of roads and squares, 40 thousand square meters of parking area, 67 thousand square meters of building area, and 92 thousand square meters of water areas, there is also a Fairy Tale Island established in an area of 25 thousand square meters for children.

45 minutes

Ziraat Bankası Müzesi

Ziraat Bankası Müzesi

The Ziraat Bank Museum is located in the Hall of Honor of the Ziraat Bank Head Office Building, which was built by the Italian Architect Giulio Mongeri between 1926-1929 and is one of the structures of the First National Architecture Period. It was opened on 20 November 1981, when the 118th anniversary of the bank’s foundation was celebrated, by Şadi Irmak, the President of the Consultative Assembly of the period. It has the distinction of being the first bank museum in our country.

45 minutes

Duatepe Anıti

Duatepe Anıti

Duatepe Monument was created by afforesting Gazi Tepe, Türbe Tepe and Mangal Dağı on the last defense line where the Battle of Sakarya, considered the turning point of the War of Independence, was fought. Work began at Duatepe in October 1999, 20 thousand trees were planted, and the monument was completed and opened on 12 September 2000. Polatlı, Duatepe Monument consists of five parts: parking lot, access road, walking path, ceremony area and monument.

45 minutes

Maden Tetkik Arama Şehit Cuma Dağ Tabiat Tarihi Müzesi

Maden Tetkik Arama Şehit Cuma Dağ Tabiat Tarihi Müzesi

It is Turkey’s first and largest natural history museum. It was established on 7 February 1968 within the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration in order to exhibit and store the specimens collected during the institution’s field studies. The museum continues to serve in its new building constructed within the campus. Numerous fossils, rocks, minerals and ore samples collected from various parts of Turkey and the world, telling the story of natural history, are exhibited in the museum.

45 minutes

Hava Kuvvetleri Müzesi

Hava Kuvvetleri Müzesi

The Air Force Museum is located in Şaşmaz Mevkii, established at the 12th kilometre of İstanbul Yolu. The museum, which entered service on 18 September 1998, was officially opened by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s adopted daughter, our country’s first female pilot, Sabiha Gökçen.

45 minutes

Ankara Üniversitesi Oyuncak Müzesi

Ankara Üniversitesi Oyuncak Müzesi

Ankara Üniversitesi Toy Museum was opened to visitors on 23 April 1990 by Prof. Dr. Bekir Onur as Turkey’s first toy museum. The aim of the museum is to preserve toys in Turkey that are under threat of disappearing within the rapid process of change. In this context, the museum supports research on the history of industry, cultural history, the history of education and the history of childhood through toys.

45 minutes

Ankara Üniversitesi Eczacilik Fakültesi Müzesi

Ankara Üniversitesi Eczacilik Fakültesi Müzesi

Ankara University Faculty of Pharmacy Museum consists of three sections: Drug Museum; ready-made medicines used during the Ottoman Period and the first 30 years of the Republic, pharmaceutical raw materials used in drug production, and extracts prepared from plants are exhibited. Approximately nearly 1000 objects are displayed here. Device Museum; it is a museum where devices used since the establishment of the Faculty but taken out of use for various reasons are also found.

45 minutes

Hacı Bayram Veli Türbesi

Hacı Bayram Veli Türbesi

Hacı Bayram Veli Tomb is in front of Hacıbayram Mosque. The tomb is made of large red Ankara stone. Its upper part is covered with white marble, and the arch of its door is decorated with colored marble. It was restored in 1947 in accordance with its original form. Photograph: Servet Uygun Who is Hacı Bayram-ı Veli?

45 minutes

Gençlik Parkı

Gençlik Parkı

Located in the Ulus Quarter of Altındağ District, Gençlik Parkı is one of Ankara's historic parks. Hermann Jansen, who was invited to prepare Ankara's plan in the early years of the Republic, had designed Gençlik Parkı as a modern entertainment and recreation venue. Thus, both the marshland area of Ankara Çayı would be drained and an example would be created regarding the use of urban open and public spaces for those living in the Republic's new capital.

45 minutes

Yörük Dede

Yörük Dede

As a result of the evaluation of the architectural elements of the tomb located on Öksüzler Street, it is estimated that this structure was built in the 14th century. The body walls of Yörük Dede Tomb, which attracts attention with its pentagonal plan, were built of rubble stone with brick fragments placed between the stones in a boxed pattern. The drum above the body walls has eight sides, and three courses of brick bond beams were used in the drum.

45 minutes

Şefik Bursali Müzesi

Şefik Bursali Müzesi

Şefik Bursalı, who was born in Bursa in 1903, began participating as a student in the Turkish Painters Association exhibitions of his teachers İbrahim Çallı, Hikmet Onat, Feyhamam Duran, Namık İsmail and Avni Lifij. He later went to Europe and found the opportunity to work in many art centers. He taught at high schools in İzmir, Konya and İstanbul, and between 1934-1936 he gained fame in Konya with his paintings on Selçuk and Mevlana themes reflecting the character of the steppe.

45 minutes

Rahmi M. Koç Müzesi

Rahmi M. Koç Müzesi

Located opposite the main entrance gate of Ankara Castle, Ankara Rahmi M. Koç Museum was opened to visitors in 2005. Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Ankara’s first industrial museum, consists of two main sections: the historic Çengelhan and Safranhan. Built during the reign of Kanuni Sultan Süleyman, Çengelhan is one of the rare structures that has survived to the present day and preserved its originality.

45 minutes

Hacettepe Sanat Müzesi

Hacettepe Sanat Müzesi

In 2016, as part of efforts to enrich its own collection, Hacettepe Sanat Müzesi included nearly 80 works in its collection through donations from important artists who had made a name for themselves in the fields of painting, sculpture, video, photography, ceramics, and graphic arts. Of Burhan Doğançay, who has a total of 48 works, 8 more works, 4 of which are oil on canvas, were donated by his wife Angela Doğançay.

45 minutes

Ankara Devlet Güzel Sanatlar Galerisi

Ankara Devlet Güzel Sanatlar Galerisi

Ankara State Fine Arts Gallery Directorate first served in 1963 in a building in Sıhhiye at Zafer Meydanı, during the period when the Ministry of Culture had not yet been established and the General Directorate of Fine Arts was a unit of the Ministry of National Education. The institution moved to İzmir Caddesi in 1967, and in 1968 to its premises in Zafer Çarşısı.

45 minutes

Türkiye Eğitim Derneği Ankara Koleji Okul Müzesi

Türkiye Eğitim Derneği Ankara Koleji Okul Müzesi

TED Ankara College School Museum, which conveys the historical accumulation of TED Ankara College Foundation Schools from its founding year of 1931 to the present day to future generations, is located on the ground floor of the administrative building on the İncek campus. The museum, which opened on 21 May 2008, has been granted the status of “Private Museum” by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

45 minutes

Ahi Elvan Cami

Ahi Elvan Cami

This very plain-looking mosque, located on Koyunbaba Street in Ahi Neighborhood of the Samanpazarı district, was built on a sloping rock. The lower part of its walls is stone, the upper part is adobe, and its interior structure is wooden. Its roof is today covered with tiles. With repairs carried out in recent years, its interior and exterior were restored with brick cladding. It was first built at the end of the 14th century and was renovated at the beginning of the 15th century.

45 minutes

Devlet Mezarliği Müzesi

Devlet Mezarliği Müzesi

State Cemetery was established by Law No. 2549 for the burial of the Presidents of the Republic of Türkiye and the commanders of the War of Independence, who were close comrades-in-arms of the Great Leader Atatürk, who gave their lives to the founding of our Republic, and was opened with a state ceremony on 30 August 1988. On 08.11.2006, an amendment was made by decree law, and it was decided that the Speakers of the TBMM and the Prime Ministers would also be buried in the State Cemetery.

45 minutes

Beypazari Yaşayan Müze

Beypazari Yaşayan Müze

Beypazarı Yaşayan Müze, Turkey’s first applied culture museum, was founded on 23 April 2007 by educator and cultural scientist Dr. Sema Demir with the idea of exhibiting folk life and what it has produced. Serving in a typical Ottoman Period Turkish house built at the very beginning of the 20th century, Yaşayan Müze is also the first example of open-air museums in Turkey, albeit on a small scale.

45 minutes

Mehmet Akif Ersoy Edebiyat Müze Kütüphanesi

Mehmet Akif Ersoy Edebiyat Müze Kütüphanesi

Mehmet Akif Ersoy lived in this house, where the selamlık section was allocated to him by Tacettin Şeyhi, who admired him, while he was the Burdur Deputy in the I. TBMM during the War of Independence, and he wrote the İstiklâl Marşı in this house. Mehmet Akif Ersoy Literature Museum Library is surrounded by high courtyard walls, and its garden is entered through a small courtyard gate. The building in the middle of the garden is a two-storey wooden Ankara house.

45 minutes

Erimtan Arkeoloji Ve Sanat Müzesi

Erimtan Arkeoloji Ve Sanat Müzesi

Erimtan Archaeology and Art Museum emerged from engineer, collector and art lover Yüksel Erimtan's interest in archaeology and the works he accumulated over the years becoming a collection.

45 minutes

Topçu Ve Füze Okulu Sinif Müzesi

Topçu Ve Füze Okulu Sinif Müzesi

The Topçu ve Füze Okulu Sınıf Müzesi, established with the aim of reflecting the social, cultural and technical development of the artillery class according to periods, conducting scientific research on military cultural assets that will shed light on our military history, and passing on our history and culture to future generations, was completed and opened to service in April 1973. The museum consists of three main sections: the museum garden, the museum section and the Şeref Salonu.

45 minutes

Tcdd Maliköy Tren İstasyonu Müzesi

Tcdd Maliköy Tren İstasyonu Müzesi

Malıköy, located on the Ankara-Eskişehir railway line, is a settlement center connected to the Polatlı district. The Malıköy station located here is a very important station that affected the fate of the nation in this region where the Battle of Sakarya took place.

45 minutes

Beypazari Tarih Ve Kültür Müzesi

Beypazari Tarih Ve Kültür Müzesi

The building, donated to the Ankara Special Provincial Administration by Mehmet Nurettin Karaoğuz, was opened as the Beypazarı History and Culture Museum in 1977. The museum building, which bears the characteristics of Classical Ottoman Architecture, was built in 1850 and has 3 floors. The ground floor has stone walls and was used as a stable and courtyard section. The upper floors are made of wood, and the interior and exterior plaster of the walls is covered with local sweet lime.

45 minutes

Cumhurbaşkanliği Atatürk Müze Köşk

Cumhurbaşkanliği Atatürk Müze Köşk

Atatürk Müze Köşkü, located within the Cumhurbaşkanlığı Çankaya Campus, is the house that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk used as his residence and workplace between 1921-1932. This building, which was Gazi Mustafa Kemal’s residence until he moved to Pembe Köşk, witnessed very important events during the War of Independence and the first years of the Republic, and where Atatürk planned his reforms, including the establishment of the Republic, was opened to the public as a museum in 1950.

45 minutes

Türkiye Barolar Birliği Hukuk Müzesi

Türkiye Barolar Birliği Hukuk Müzesi

The Union of Turkish Bar Associations Law Museum was opened during Lawyers’ Week on 5 April 2012. It is Turkey’s first and only law museum. The museum collection includes artistic objects that visually reflect the historical transformation of law in parallel with the development of the history of thought and civilization.

45 minutes

Cenabi Ahmet Paşa Cami

Cenabi Ahmet Paşa Cami

Cenabi Ahmet Paşa Cami, Mimar Sinan’s only work in Ankara, is located in the Ulucanlar district. In the works titled Tezkiret-ül Ebniye (Yapılar Tezkeresi, Mimar Sinan’ın Otobiyografyası Yazarı Şair Nakkaş Sai Mustafa Çelebi) and Tuhfetü’l Mimarin, it is stated that this mosque was built by Mimar Sinan.

45 minutes

Göksu Parkı

Göksu Parkı

It is one of Ankara’s most important recreation and entertainment centers, opened for service in as short a time as 100 days. The total usage area is 508 thousand square meters. Of this area, 141 thousand square meters consists of the pond area. In the pond, besides the Mississippi Ship and boats used for sightseeing, and the islands and reeds that create the lake’s natural beauty, there are also 9 floating piers belonging to businesses.

45 minutes

Meteoroloji Müzesi

Meteoroloji Müzesi

In the building, which was constructed in 1908 as Ziraat Mektebi, Anadolu Ajansı was founded by Halide Edip Adıvar, and from 27 Aralık 1919 onward the building served for six months as the headquarters of Atatürk and his colleagues. The room where Atatürk stayed and prepared the war plans of the War of Independence, together with the desk, stove, curtains and carpet he used, was turned into a museum under the name Atatürk Odası.

45 minutes

Yayincilik Tarihi Müzesi

Yayincilik Tarihi Müzesi

As Turkey’s first and only public broadcasting institution, the TRT Broadcasting History Museum, established to convey the institution’s process from past to present, was realized through the 4-year work of more than two hundred TRT employees. The TRT Museum has a structure in which the process of radio and television broadcasting is not only observed, but can also be practiced.

45 minutes

Ankara Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Müze Ve Kültürevi

Ankara Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Müze Ve Kültürevi

Opened in 2007, the Ankara University Faculty of Agriculture Museum bears the traces of the School of Agriculture established in 1892 in the Halkalı district of Istanbul, the Shepherd School opened in 1898 in the Kalaba district of Ankara, and the Higher Institute of Agriculture opened for education and training on 30 October 1933. The museum consists of two enclosed halls on the ground floor and 10 rooms and 1 corridor on the upper floor.

45 minutes

Atatürk Vagonu Müzesi

Atatürk Vagonu Müzesi

Atatürk Wagon, the most original surviving part of the White Train, which Atatürk used on domestic trips from 1935 until his death and which was turned into a museum with its original state preserved, was registered in 1991 by the Ministry of Culture General Directorate of Monuments and Museums as a "cultural asset belonging to Atatürk that must be preserved". The Atatürk Wagon, exhibited in the Ankara Station Complex by TCDD since 1964, was manufactured in 1935 by LHV Linke-Werke, Breslau.

45 minutes

Türkpusat Geleneksel Savaş Pusatlari Müzesi

Türkpusat Geleneksel Savaş Pusatlari Müzesi

It aims to introduce traditional weapons and to keep the cultural heritage alive in this direction. In the museum, it is possible to gain information in the historical, philosophical and technical fields regarding the subtleties of the art of war, especially archery. In the museum, which aims for its visitors to touch and feel history, original collections from different periods of our war and sports history are open to visitors.

45 minutes

Beypazari Türk Hamam Müzesi

Beypazari Türk Hamam Müzesi

Beypazarı Turkish Bath Museum was established with the aim of documenting, exhibiting, and passing on bath culture to the future. In other words, the Turkish bath culture, which has taken its place in universal and social memory, is being preserved as a whole in the museum and efforts are being made to pass it on to future generations. The museum, which focuses on Turkish bath and bathing culture, is Turkey’s first and only museum both in terms of the subject it addresses and the museology techniques it uses.

45 minutes

Ulus Cumhuriyet Anıti

Ulus Cumhuriyet Anıti

It is located in Ulus Square. The monument was erected in 1927 as a gift from the Turkish Nation to the heroes of the War of Independence. On its side face, there are two stylized wolf heads. On its front face, two Turkish soldiers are depicted, one calling his comrades to war with one hand, the other watching the horizons. On the right face of the body, Atatürk and his comrades are depicted in relief at the Başkumandanlık Meydan Savaşı; on the left face, the invading army saluting the glorious Turkish Flag is depicted.

45 minutes

Ankara Vakif Eserleri Müzesi

Ankara Vakif Eserleri Müzesi

The museum building was constructed in 1927 within the period called the First National Architecture Period (1908-1930), which covers the first years of the Republic. It was used as the School of Law between 1928-1941 and was opened as the Ankara Vakıf Eserleri Museum on 7 May 2007. The building is one of the early examples with rather plain facades in which traditional ornamental and architectural elements were not used.

45 minutes

Kayak Ve Dağcilik - Elmadağ Kayak Merkezi

Kayak Ve Dağcilik - Elmadağ Kayak Merkezi

The most suitable area for Winter Tourism in Ankara is Elmadağ Ski Center, located in Yakupabdal village of Elmadağ district, 26 km from Ankara. Elmadağ district, where the ski facilities and mountain lodge are located, is a ski and mountaineering center favored by local and foreign tourists in the winter months. In Elmadağ, where a continental climate prevails, the ski season is January-March. The treeless slopes covered with alpine meadows are of easy and متوسط difficulty levels.

45 minutes

Makine Ve Kimya Enstitüsü Sanayi Ve Teknoloji Müzesi

Makine Ve Kimya Enstitüsü Sanayi Ve Teknoloji Müzesi

The MKE Industry and Technology Museum was established in order to make visible the contributions made by the Machinery and Chemical Industry Institution to the writing of Turkey’s industrial history, the formation of many new institutions, and the formation of Turkey’s production culture.

45 minutes

Ankara Somut Olmayan Kültürel Miras Müzesi

Ankara Somut Olmayan Kültürel Miras Müzesi

The Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, opened on 15 June 2013 as a result of the devoted work of the faculty members of Gazi University Turkish Folklore and the financial contributions of Ankara Kalkına Agency, is Turkey’s first museum in its field. Through the events it organizes, the museum keeps many cultural values alive in practice. Karagöz-Hacivat, orta oyunu, meddah performances, village theatrical plays, and children’s games are among the traditional plays exhibited by the museum.

45 minutes

Azimi (İsmail Paşazade Hacı Esad) Türbesi

Azimi (İsmail Paşazade Hacı Esad) Türbesi

Located to the south of Cenab-ı Ahmet Paşa Türbesi, this square-planned mausoleum with a wooden ceiling does not have any major distinguishing feature. Two corners of the entirely brick structure were cut to a height of 2 meters, and the walls were reinforced with wooden beams. On the chamfered corners, one stone and four rows of brick were used. The wooden ceiling and tiled roof covering the mausoleum are very plain.

45 minutes

Ankara Evleri

Ankara Evleri

These are houses seen in the old settlement areas of the city, especially in the Kaleiçi district. The Ankara Houses, of which a limited number of examples remain from the 17th, 18th and 19uncu centuries, are mostly two-storey structures built mainly of wood and adobe. In the courtyard on the ground floor of these houses are the servants' rooms, and on the first floor are the rooms occupied by the owner of the house.

45 minutes

Dikmen Vadisi

Dikmen Vadisi

The 1st and 2nd stage sections of Dikmen Vadisi are established on an area of 378 thousand square meters. A 31 thousand square meter part of this area constitutes the pond area. There are 2 small and 1 large waterfall in the valley. An 87 thousand 500 square meter part of the valley is terraced ground, and there are 120 thousand broad-leaved and coniferous trees on the 260 thousand square meter green area.

45 minutes

Mustafa Ayaz Vakfi Plastik Sanatlar Müzesi

Mustafa Ayaz Vakfi Plastik Sanatlar Müzesi

Mustafa Ayaz Foundation Museum of Plastic Arts, where works from different periods of Mustafa Ayaz are exhibited, has an approximately 5 thousand square meter area of use. In addition to the museum floors, the building contains an art gallery, workshops, a library, a souvenir section, and a museum cafe.

45 minutes

Cin Ali Müzesi

Cin Ali Müzesi

Cin Ali is the cartoon character of the storybooks prepared by Rasim Kaygusuz to teach children to read easily and to make them love reading. The illustrations of the Cin Ali books were made by Selçuk Seğmen. The Cin Ali Story Books, which began to be published in 968, became well known and much loved in a short time. With his idea, character and spirit, Cin Ali has left his mark on our educational history and our emotions.

45 minutes

Sultan Alaaddin Cami

Sultan Alaaddin Cami

The mosque, located at the beginning of Aktaş Sokağı in İç Hisar Mahallesi, has a simple appearance. Its walls are built of cut stone and rubble stone mixed with a wide variety of spolia antique materials, and it is a plastered structure with a tiled roof. According to the pulpit inscription, the first mosque here dates to 1178. It lost its original character in repairs carried out in the 14th and 15th centuries and in recent times.

45 minutes

Karacabey Cami

Karacabey Cami

It is located on Mehmet AKif Ersoy Street in Hacettepe Neighborhood. Together with its tomb, fountain and the Çift Hamamı located in the Hamamönü district, it is a külliye. Along with the bath, which has disappeared today, two madrasas and the storehouses extending from beside the mosque to Hacettepe, the külliye covers a very large area. It is a structure of mixed stone and brick. Its top is covered with a tiled roof. It is one of Ankara’s most important religious buildings. This mosque is covered with five domes.

45 minutes

Ankara Olgunlaşma Enstitüsü 100. Yıl Müzesi

Ankara Olgunlaşma Enstitüsü 100. Yıl Müzesi

Ankara Olgunlaşma Enstitüsü 100. Yıl Museum was established within Ankara Olgunlaşma Enstitüsü on 24 November 1981 due to the 100th anniversary of Atatürk’s birth. The museum was established in order to protect, preserve and pass on to new generations ethnographic works that are on the verge of disappearing, and to introduce Turkish culture and handicrafts to local and foreign guests visiting the institute. The museum consists of three sections. A large part of the works belongs to the late period of the Ottoman Empire.

45 minutes

Mimar Sinan Anıti

Mimar Sinan Anıti

It is located in the garden of the Faculty of Language, History and Geography. In 1956, it was commissioned by Türkiye Emlak ve Kredi Bankası to the sculptor Hüseyin Anka. Only this bank fulfilled Atatürk’s will, which he conveyed to the Türk Tarih Araştırma Kurumu and wrote in his own handwriting as “T.T.A.K. Sinan’ın heykelini yapınız. K.Atatürk: VIII 1935 saat 22.50”. The statue weighs 7 tons and its height together with its base is 4.30 meters.

45 minutes

Kesikbaş Türbesi

Kesikbaş Türbesi

It is located a little beyond Aslanhane Camii and on Atpazarı Yokuşu. Very close to Aslanhane Camii and its tomb, the tomb is one of the open tombs with four columns and a domed top, on a small square platform. On the marble columns at the four corners, there are chamfered capitals and pointed brick arches facing these capitals. A dome with pendentives stands over the arches on its four sides. On the outer sides, the tops of the arches have hedgehog eaves.

45 minutes

Çubuk Şehir Müzesi

Çubuk Şehir Müzesi

Çubuk City Museum was established in one of the few historical buildings in Ankara's Çubuk district. The museum, created through the restoration and arrangement in 2013 of Bekir Ağalar Mansion, which belonged to one of the wealthy families of the time, was opened as an exhibition hall in 2015, and in 2017 it was registered by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism with the title of city museum.

45 minutes

Atatürk Orman Çiftliği Müze Ve Sergi Salonu

Atatürk Orman Çiftliği Müze Ve Sergi Salonu

Atatürk House, which is similar to the house in the city of Thessaloniki where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born and spent his childhood days, is located on the grounds of Atatürk Orman Çiftliği, founded by him in Ankara. It was opened to visitors on 10 Kasım 1981. The dimensions of the building, and the dimensions, patterns and forms of the furnishings placed inside, are identical to those of the house in Thessaloniki, and the arrangement has also been made in accordance with the original. The house has three floors including the basement.

45 minutes

Etnografya müzesi

Etnografya müzesi

The Ethnography Museum, which was Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s first temporary resting place, was established on the hill in Ankara known by the name Namazgâh.

60 minutes