Süreyya Özkan Gaz Lambası Müzesi

About Süreyya Özkan Gaz Lambası Müzesi

The Süreyya Özkan Gas Lamp Museum is a single-subject museum in Beypazarı devoted to kerosene (gas) lamps. Beypazarı Municipality describes it as the first gas lamp museum in Türkiye. It occupies about 600 square metres of indoor space in the Beypazarı Halkevi (People's House) building in the Rüstempaşa quarter, and displays more than 1,600 lamps of many kinds. The collection was built up over many years by Süreyya Özkan, who was born in 1962 in Karacaören, a village in Ankara's Güdül district, grew up in Istanbul and works there as a financial adviser and auditor. He collected lamps from Türkiye and abroad as a hobby and then gave the whole collection to Beypazarı. The museum was opened by Özkan and members of the municipal council on the second day of the town's Harvest Festival (Hasat Festivali), held on 16 and 17 September. The museum is run by Beypazarı Municipality and lies in the old town's Rüstempaşa quarter, the same neighbourhood as the Beypazarı City History Museum, so it is easy to combine with the town's other museums.