Places to visit
Things to do in Çankaya
27 destinations, each with a description, how long it takes and where it sits on the map.
In short
toroti’s catalogue holds 27 described destinations within Çankaya, Ankara. The themes that come up most: Nature, Museum, Culture, History, Local culture, Faith heritage.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
Anadolu Mimarlik Ve Mobilya Kültürel Miras Müzesi Ve Araştirma Merkezi
Anadolu Architecture and Furniture Cultural Heritage Museum and Research Center, the first architecture and furniture museum in our country, was opened on 25 December 2008. It is in Merik Mansion on Lodumlu Doğramacı Caddesi. It is Bilkent’s famous Merik Mansion or, as it is popularly known, the “Golden Mansion”.
45 minutes
Sebahattin Yıldız Müzesi
Sebahattin Yıldız Museum has adopted as its mission to carry out its activities in Turkey and around the world with an understanding that remains committed to contemporary, standard and ethical values for the protection, research, exhibition and publication of cultural heritage and art. Its goal is to be a leading institute in the protection of the country's cultural heritage and to ensure the transfer of cultural assets to future generations.
45 minutes
Hatti Anıti
Located in Sıhhıye Square and built in 1974, this monument is identical to the 24-centimeter-high religious ritual object unearthed in the Alacahöyük excavations and preserved today in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. Known as the symbol of the Hittites, this statue actually belongs to the Hattis, a people of the Early Bronze Age (second half of the 3rd millennium B.C.). The Hattis developed the cult of animal-shaped gods, and the bull in particular became the most important symbol.
45 minutes
Jandarma Müzesi
The Gendarmerie Museum, established with the aim of introducing the history of the Gendarmerie Organization and the level it has reached today in every aspect, and of passing this military cultural heritage on to future generations, was opened on 21 November 2005. On the ground floor of the museum is the exhibition hall of the Ottoman State period, while on the first floor are the exhibition halls of the Republican Period.
45 minutes
MTA Tabiat Tarihi Müzesi
The natural history museum was opened in 1968 by the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration upon Atatürk’s orders. The museum, which is located within the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration and established on an area of 4.000 m2, consists of 5 sections and is arranged over 3 floors. On the first floor, there are examples of plants and animals that lived in our country in the past and are still living today.
45 minutes
Milli Savunma Bakanliği Arşiv Müzesi
In the Ministry of National Defense Archives Directorate Museum, documents and records related to personnel from the periods of the Crimean War, the Tripolitanian War, the Balkan Wars, the First World War and the War of Independence are exhibited. Ministry of National Defense Archives Museum Visiting Hours: 10.00-11.30 / 14.00-16.
45 minutes
Zafer Anıti
It is in the Yenişehir district, on Atatürk Bulvarı, in front of the Orduevi. It is a bronze statue of Atatürk in uniform, standing and leaning on his sword. Victory wreaths in relief are placed on its base. There is no inscription. It was made in 1927 by the Italian sculptor Pietro Cannonica. It is a monument decorated with wreaths on national holidays and liberation anniversaries.
45 minutes
Kuğulu Park
The park takes its name from the white swans gifted by the Municipality of Vienna in the years when it was established. Today, the park, known for its swans, geese and ducks, is home to 24 different bird species, and these are indicated on a board in the park. In addition to poplars, the park features plane trees, Judas trees and hawthorn trees, as well as various groups of shrubs.
60 minutes
Botanik Parkı
It is a park located in the valley surrounded by Cinnah and Çankaya avenues, with its two slopes adorned with rare flowers. In the middle of the park, there is a pool and a flower greenhouse. The park covers an area of 65 thousand square meters.
45 minutes
Kocatepe Camii
The mosque, whose construction began in 1967 in the Kocatepe district and was completed in 1987 by the Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı. In the lower part of the mosque, which was built on an area of 4500 m², there are a conference hall, library, parking lot, commercial premises and administrative units.
45 minutes
Atatürk Evi Müze Köşk
This building, which was Ata’s home between 1921-1932, witnessed very important events during the War of Independence and the first years of the Republic, and where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk planned the reforms, including the establishment of the Republic, was opened for use as a museum in 1950.
45 minutes
Pembe Köşk
Pembe Köşk is the mansion where İsmet İnönü, the 2nd President of the Republic of Türkiye, spent 48 years. İsmet İnönü bought Pembe Köşk in 1924 as a vineyard house, moved there with his family in 1925, and lived here until 1973.
45 minutes
ODTÜ Bilim ve Teknoloji Müzesi
ODTÜ Science and Technology Museum is a museum affiliated with Middle East Technical University, established in Ankara in 2003. The aim of the museum is to document the history of technology that has developed in Anatolia since 7000 BC and to exhibit today's technology.
45 minutes
Mta Serası
It is located on the MTA site, which also includes the Natural History Museum. It contains a rose garden and botanical garden worth seeing. It is open to visitors.
45 minutes
Güvenlik Anıti
It is located in Güven Park in the Kızılay district. It was made of Ankara stone in 1935. Since it is a gift of the Turkish Nation to the police and gendarmerie, it is also called the Emniyet Monument. On the side of the monument facing Kızılay, there are statues of strong young men holding a staff representing trust. Beneath these statues, Atatürk’s words “Türk, Öğün, Çalış, Güven” are written in bronze letters.
45 minutes
Anıtkabir Atatürk Ve Kurtuluş Savaşı Müzesi
Anıtkabir is a museum that commemorates Atatürk and narrates the War of Independence. Visitors can explore Atatürk's belongings and the challenges faced on the road to the establishment of the Republic of Turkey.
120 minutes