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Kenan Yavuz Ethnography Museum
Demirözü, Bayburt
An award-winning private ethnography museum in the village of Beşpınar (Loru), keeping rural life alive with village houses, mills, a mansion and open-air exhibition areas.
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Its story
The Kenan Yavuz Ethnography Museum is in the village of Beşpınar (formerly Loru), attached to Demirözü, about 40 km from central Bayburt. Founded as a culture house in 2013 by the businessman Kenan Yavuz, it gained private museum status in 2019. On an area of about 8,000 square meters there are the village house where the founder grew up, a gecekondu (shanty) structure, a mansion, open and covered exhibition areas, traditional mills, a library focused on Dede Korkut, an exhibition of agricultural tools and a square dedicated to village craftsmen. Tiles produced by the İznik Foundation are also in the collection. The museum received the European Museum Forum's Silletto Prize in 2021. It also hosts traditional activities such as scything, tandır baking and threshing.
Key facts
- Opened
- 2013 (museum status 2019)
- Admission
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- Getting there
- Village of Beşpınar, about 40 km from Bayburt
- Visit duration
- 1.5 hours
Trip purpose
- Photography
- Day trip
- Rainy day
- Traveling with kids
Location
40.03080, 39.85544
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Source: Web derlemesi (doğrulanmalı): https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenan_Yavuz_Etnografya_M%C3%BCzesi | https://goturkiye.com/bayburt/see | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118955949