Prof. Ülker Muncuk Müzesi

About Prof. Ülker Muncuk Müzesi

The Prof. Ülker Muncuk Museum is an ethnographic and textile museum on the Gölbaşı campus of Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University. It began in 1974 as the Girls' Technical Teacher Training School Museum (Kız Teknik Yüksek Öğretmen Okulu Müzesi), founded as a gift for the 50th anniversary of the Republic. In 1982 it came under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the supervision of the Ankara Ethnography Museum, in 2006 a Gazi University senate decision gave it its present name, and in 2018 it passed to Hacı Bayram Veli University's Faculty of Art and Design, reopening on the Gölbaşı campus in 2022. The collection centres on traditional dress and textiles from different regions of Türkiye, mostly from the 19th and 20th centuries. On show are bindallı wedding gowns of velvet with metallic-thread embroidery, üçetek robes, waistcoats and baggy trousers, embroidered bundle wraps, prayer rugs, covers, handkerchiefs and bridal bath towels, needle-lace (oya) headscarves and bridal head ornaments, patterned hand-knitted socks from Sivas and elsewhere in Anatolia, and gloves, socks and shawls knitted from Ayaş mohair. Jewellery includes silver belts, amulet cases and fez ornaments. The museum also holds 20th-century oil paintings by Saip Tuna and Nazmi Ziya Güran. A highlight is Saip Tuna's original 1935 charcoal portrait of Atatürk, which the university says Atatürk admired and which was later printed on postage stamps. A needle-lace cover is shown with the first-prize medal it won at a 1936 handicrafts exhibition. Practical notes: the university's own news page (November 2024) invites visitors to see the Atatürk portrait at the museum on the Gölbaşı campus. The Türkiye Turizm Ansiklopedisi lists it as generally open on weekdays from 09:00 to 17:00 with free entry. Check with the university before travelling.