Culture and art / Museum
Sakıp Sabancı Mardin City Museum
Artuklu, Mardin
A city museum and art gallery in former cavalry barracks dated 1889, telling Mardin's urban history and multicultural daily life.
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Its story
The two-story building housing the museum was built in 1889 as cavalry barracks by Hacı Hasan Paşa, governor of Diyarbakır in the reign of Abdülhamid II; its architect was Sarkis Elyas Lole. Used in later periods as a military recruitment office, a gendarmerie station and a tax office, the building was restored and converted into a museum. The exhibition on the upper floor tells the city's history through re-creations and photographs, with gravestones of different faiths, products of crafts such as jewelry-making, coppersmithing, weaving, soap-making and stone carving, local costumes and household items. The Dilek Sabancı Art Gallery on the ground floor hosts temporary contemporary art and photography exhibitions.
Key facts
- Period
- Building 1889
- Admission
- Paid
- Getting there
- Savurkapı neighborhood, around the old Cumhuriyet Square
- Visit duration
- 1 hour
Trip purpose
- Rainy day
- Traveling with kids
Location
37.31449, 40.74612
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Source: Web derlemesi (doğrulanmalı): https://mardin.ktb.gov.tr/TR-312380/sakip-sabanci-muzesi.html | https://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/rus-avangardi-sergisi-mardin-sakip-sabanci-muzesinde-acildi-1845589 | https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/219001206