Çubuk Şehir Müzesi

About Çubuk Şehir Müzesi

The Çubuk City Museum is the local history museum of Çubuk, a district in Ankara's north-east. It is housed in the Bekir Ağalar Konağı, a mansion that belonged to one of the town's wealthy families and is one of the few historic buildings still standing in the district. Çubuk Municipality restored and fitted out the house in 2013, opened it as an exhibition hall in 2015, and in 2017 the Ministry of Culture and Tourism registered it as a city museum. The house has its own place in the district's history: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk stayed here during his visit to Çubuk in 1933. Inside, scale models recreate the Battle of Ankara of 1402, fought on the plain near Çubuk between Timur and the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, and everyday life in the town in the early 1900s. Alongside them are historical objects that the museum has gathered partly by purchase and partly through donations from local people, giving a picture of how households in the district once lived and worked. The Ministry of Education's out-of-school learning guide lists the museum as open Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00 and closed on Sundays; as hours can change, it is worth phoning ahead. The museum stands on Atatürk Caddesi in the town centre, and the Culture Portal notes that Çubuk can be reached by public transport from Ankara.