Ekmek Müzesi

About Ekmek Müzesi

Ekmek Müzesi (Bread Museum) is a small museum run by Ankara Halk Ekmek, the bakery company of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, at its bread factory on Anadolu Bulvarı in Macunköy, Yenimahalle. Halk Ekmek describes it as Türkiye's first and only bread museum. It opened in 2007. The museum follows a loaf from seed to table. Old farming tools and implements, some of them a century old, show how wheat is sown and harvested, milled into flour and then turned into dough, baked and brought to the table, and the story is told to visitors to the accompaniment of Anatolian folk melodies. Halk Ekmek says the aim is to explain each stage of bread-making and tie it to history by displaying the equipment used to make bread from the past to the present day. The museum is on the mezzanine floor of the company's Başkent Market GİMAT branch at Anadolu Bulvarı No:13, where Halk Ekmek invites the public to visit it. Halk Ekmek's social media accounts also report school groups touring the bread factory and the museum together. Opening hours are not published on the company's website, so it is worth checking before making a special trip.