Tire Kent Müzesi

About Tire Kent Müzesi

Tire City Museum is an ethnography museum run by Tire Municipality in the restored former town hall in the centre of Tire. It opened on 15 October 2014, set up with objects given by donors to protect and promote the cultural identity of Tire and its surroundings. The municipality calls it a living museum. The visit begins along a ground-floor corridor that introduces the history of Tire and its former mayors, followed by photographs of well-known people from Tire and a range of ethnographic objects. At the end of the corridor stands a car used by the mayor in the 1940s. The halls are divided into booths for trades, several of them now dying out: handicrafts, food and drink culture, sport, water and bathhouse culture, barbering, tailoring, shoemaking and photography. Some booths use mannequins, while in others craftspeople are actually at work. The garden holds busts of notable Turkish figures, and the basement of the building is used as a cinema hall. Visiting: the Ministry of Education guide lists the museum as open every day from 08:30 to 17:30, with an entry fee, and recommends booking ahead for groups.