TCDD İzmir Müze ve Sanat Galerisi

About TCDD İzmir Müze ve Sanat Galerisi

TCDD's İzmir Museum and Art Gallery stands opposite Alsancak railway station. The building was put up in the 1800s by British merchants living in Alsancak as a goods warehouse, so it predates the İzmir-Aydın railway, begun in 1856. It shares the timber-framed Bağdadi style of the nearby British Consulate and Anglican church. It later served as offices for British companies and, from the 1860s, as the residence of the manager of the Ottoman Railway Company from İzmir to Aydın; after the railways were nationalised it remained staff housing for many years. The building became a museum and art gallery in 1990. Since its last restoration in 2002-2003 the upper floor has been an art gallery and the ground floor a railway museum. One of the nine carriages of the White Train that Atatürk used on his journeys around the country is also displayed at Alsancak station.