Gazi Üniversitesi Resim Heykel Müzesi

About Gazi Üniversitesi Resim Heykel Müzesi

Gazi Üniversitesi Resim Heykel Müzesi (Gazi University Painting and Sculpture Museum) is a university art museum in Gazi University's rectorate building on Mevlana Bulvarı in Emniyet, Yenimahalle. It was founded in 1979 as the İsmail Hakkı Tonguç Museum and took its present name in 1990, when it was reorganised by Yüksel Bingöl, then head of the university's art education department. Its roots go back to the 1930s. The Online Türkiye Tourism Encyclopedia relates that Malik Aksel found paintings and documents in the attic of the Gazi Education Institute, and that in 1934-35, while İsmail Hakkı Tonguç was acting director, a picture gallery was opened in the institute's upper corridor; in 1935 those paintings were sent to Istanbul on Atatürk's orders and became the core of the Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum. The present museum was rebuilt from the institute's art department archive and from donations, mostly by artists who taught at or graduated from Gazi. The collection numbers 281 works of painting, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics. It includes works by Halil Paşa and Baltalı Ahmet Bedri, Republican-era painters such as Feyhaman Duran, Zeki Faik İzer and Namık İsmail, and later artists including Malik Aksel, Refik Epikman, Eren Eyüboğlu, Nuri Abaç and Turan Erol. Exhibitions, workshops and events for students and art lovers are also held. The Ministry of Education's out-of-school learning guide lists opening hours of 10:00 to 17:00, Monday to Saturday, with the museum closed on Sundays. It notes step-free access and guided tours, recommends booking ahead for groups, and says photography may need permission.