Hacettepe Sanat Müzesi

About Hacettepe Sanat Müzesi

Hacettepe Art Museum (Hacettepe Sanat Müzesi) is Hacettepe University's art museum, on the university's Sıhhiye campus in central Ankara, in a building it shares with the university's cultural centre and art gallery. It was founded on 4 October 2005 with the aim, in the museum's own words, of creating a university museum model that adds to the visual and cultural life of the city, for the wider public as well as students. The collection covers painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics and video. Turkish Wikipedia notes that it held only 80 works when it opened in 2005, and that donations and purchases have since taken it past 500. Burhan Doğançay is the best-represented name, alongside works by artists such as Şeref Akdik, Hikmet Onat, Feyhaman Duran, Avni Arbaş, Nevzat Akoral, Nuri Abaç, Fikret Otyam and Hayati Misman. The museum was closed for repairs in 2015 and reopened on 17 October 2017, the university's 50th anniversary, with the exhibition Yarın Bugünden Kurulur, built around some 80 works donated to the museum. Alongside the permanent collection, the museum gives priority to temporary exhibitions, working with the university's departments to show contemporary art and contemporary photography and borrowing works from other museums, institutions and private collections. The museum's website lists visiting hours of 10.00 to 16.00 on weekdays; check its website or Instagram account for current exhibitions before you go.