Altınköy Katırcı Konağı

About Altınköy Katırcı Konağı

Katırcı Konağı is a restaurant set in one of the historic timber mansions of the Altınköy Open-Air Museum in Beşikkaya, Altındağ, where Altındağ Municipality has recreated Anatolian village life of the 1930s to 1950s on about 500 decares of land. The house is a museum piece in its own right. It was built in 1946 in Yortanpazarı, in the Yenice district of Karabük, by the mine sergeant-major İsmail Katırcı, using the çantı technique of fitted hornbeam and oak timbers with no metal nails in the walls. Weighing 123 tonnes, the mansion was acquired from his son Durmuş Katırcı, numbered piece by piece, dismantled and trucked to Ankara in 2013, then reassembled and restored over four months and opened in 2014. Since 2019 it has served breakfast and meals, and it is the largest konak in Altınköy. A meal here fits naturally into a day at the museum. Around the house are the village mosque, school, bakery, grocery, coffee house, laundry, windmill, watermill and a suspension bridge, along with sheep, cows, horses, donkeys, deer and gazelles, and village bread fresh from the oven. The museum charges an entry fee and is closed on Mondays; its official account gives opening hours of 10:00 to 19:00 on the other days. For breakfast enquiries the museum lists +90 501 704 73 29.