Prof. Dr. Ferruh Dinçer Veteriner Hekimliği Tarihi Müzesi

About Prof. Dr. Ferruh Dinçer Veteriner Hekimliği Tarihi Müzesi

The Prof. Dr. Ferruh Dinçer Veteriner Hekimliği Tarihi Müzesi is the veterinary history museum of the Ankara University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. The faculty describes it as the only museum of its kind in Türkiye and one of few in the world. The idea came from Ferruh Dinçer, appointed as an assistant to the chair of veterinary history and deontology in 1963, after the head of the medical history chair, Feridun Nafiz Uzluk, urged him to start by founding a museum of the history of his profession. Old publications were bought, biographical material, photocopies and microfilms were gathered, portraits of leading figures were commissioned, and institutions and senior vets donated items. The museum opened to visitors in 1974. In 1990 it moved with its department into a historic building on the campus. Built in 1927 at the request of the Hungarian meteorologist Antal Réthly, who had been invited to set up a weather network in the early Republic, the building opened on 15 October 1927 as the Rasadat-ı Cevviyye Müessesesi and later served as the rector residence of the Yüksek Ziraat Enstitüsü. It was registered as a cultural asset in 2011, restored, and reopened on 21 April 2016 under the name of Ferruh Dinçer. The collection traces the development of scientific veterinary medicine in Türkiye through personal belongings, manuscripts, archive documents and publications, uniforms and pennants, photographs and oil paintings, glass and surgical equipment, laboratory instruments and anatomical models. Entry is free, and a virtual museum has been online since September 2021. Visiting days are limited, so contact the faculty before going; the Ankara Veteriner Anatomi Müzesi is in the same faculty.