Hamiye Çolakoğlu Seramik Müzesi

About Hamiye Çolakoğlu Seramik Müzesi

Hamiye Çolakoğlu Seramik Müzesi is a ceramics and biography museum on the Beytepe campus of Hacettepe University, housed in the Ankara State Conservatory building. It was set up within the Faculty of Fine Arts and has the status of a private museum attached to the Ankara Ethnography Museum Directorate of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The museum honours Hamiye Çolakoğlu, the ceramic artist who founded the ceramics department of the Hacettepe Faculty of Fine Arts in 1983 and taught there until she retired. Her work is part of the Ankara landscape: the Derman Çeşmesi fountain and the Soyut İnsan Anıtı (Abstract Human Monument) on the Beytepe campus are hers, and she also made notable works for Bilkent University. Seramik Türkiye describes it as the first private museum founded in the name of a ceramic artist in Türkiye; preparations began in 2001 and the museum opened in March 2020. On display are ceramic works made by Hamiye Çolakoğlu together with documents about her private life and her personal belongings. It was the second museum to be established within Hacettepe University. The ceramics and glass department of the university says the museum can be visited at the conservatory building on the Beytepe campus. Opening hours are not published on current official pages, so it is best to contact the department before making the trip out to the campus.