75. Yıl Cumhuriyet Eğitim Müzesi

About 75. Yıl Cumhuriyet Eğitim Müzesi

The 75. Yıl Cumhuriyet Eğitim Müzesi (75th Anniversary of the Republic Education Museum) is a small museum of Turkish education history run under the Ministry of National Education. It stands in the large garden of Ankara Atatürk Lisesi, one of the city's oldest high schools, in Sıhhiye on the Çankaya side of the city centre. According to Turkish Wikipedia, it occupies the former principal's residence of the school building completed in 1940, a single-storey detached building linked to the main block by a covered colonnade. Kültür Portalı, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's guide, describes it as the first education museum to operate in Turkey and says it holds educational materials. The school's own history page and Turkish Wikipedia add two treasured objects kept here: the flag that Atatürk personally presented to the school after the War of Independence, in recognition of its teachers and pupils who fought at the front, and the pennant of the Gazi Oymağı scout troop that Atatürk asked the school to form. Sources differ on the year the museum opened, so it is not stated here. Practical notes: Kültür Portalı says primary and secondary school pupils from across Ankara and university students training to be teachers visit every year on planned trips, so the museum is geared to groups. It is reached via Strazburg Caddesi from Sıhhiye. Phone ahead to check opening times before visiting individually.