Maritime Museums in Turkey
According to the many newspaper, the number of museums and museum visitor numbers increase in Turkey. The museum concept in Turkey than in the past becomes more exciting, value-added and professional. When we go to museums, we can access information that we want to learn through kiosks or pedestal information notes without disturbing the museum officials. Over the past 20 years, with the development of shipping, there was an increase in the number of maritime museums in Turkey. Maritime museums have developed in three different themes. These are the classic style museum, converting the retired ship into a museum and turning it into a museum by replicating the ships that have been important in history. The Istanbul Naval Museum and Rahmi M. Koç Museum in Besiktas, Inciralti Naval Museum and Arkas Naval History Museum in Izmir, Bodrum Naval Museum in Bodrum, Golcuk Ship Museum in Kocaeli, Mersin Naval Museum in Mersin, Naval Museum in Iskenderun Museum of the Sea Museum and the Dardanelles in Turkey are the leading maritime museum. However, the retired ships in our country serves as a museum in different points. These are Yarhisar Museum in Kocaeli, Nusret Mine Ship Museum in Mersin and Zübeyde Hanım and Training Ship in İzmir. In addition, one-to-one replicas of ships of high importance in our history serve as Gazi Alemdar Ship Museum in Ereğli and Bandırma Ship Museum in Samsun. Let us go on a free ship museum tour and examine these museums one by one.
Istanbul is Turkey's largest maritime museum Maritime Museum. Many historical products are exhibited in the museum, which was restored in 2008 in Beşiktaş. The main products are: Ottoman Navy, Republican Navy, Navy Clothing from Past to Present, Historical products of Martyrs and Veterans, Atatürk's Love of Sea, Yavuz Ship and Historical Diver Materials. Istanbul Naval Museum being the largest maritime museum in Turkey, as well as a collection of 20,000 pieces work is very important in the global maritime archive Especially galleys, barge and Ataturk's recollections were presented to perfectly visitors. The first naval museum founded in Turkey, located in the estuary Let's switch to the Rahmi M. Koç Museum.
Rahmi M. Koç Museum; Turkey's industrial development is a magnificent museum describing unprofessional. This museum, which exhibits more works than many maritime museums, sheds light on Turkish and world maritime history. Important maritime monuments include the ferry of Fenerbahçe, the Maid of Honor boat, the Vernicos Irini tugboat, the Gonca steamship, the distant boat, the Port 2 tugboat, the Tekel 15 barter and the TCG Uluçalireis Submarine. There are also indoor canoes, boats and boats. In addition, in many sections of the maritime, small rooms are presented to visitors with lifeless mannequins.
The pearl of the Aegean, this museum that lives and tells the maritime life in İzmir, which makes it popular and popular, has elements of Turkish Navy floating, flying and diving. The retired Turkish Navy TCG Ege Frigate, TCG Piri Reis Submarine, TCG Kasırga Rocket Helicopter and EU 12 Helicopter are the pupils of this museum. The exhibition of ships from the past to the present; Describes the ships that are important in Turkish maritime. It is also worth exploring in the exhibition titled 100 100 Unknown Issues About Maritime ’. The other important museum of İzmir is the Arkas Maritime Museum. All maritime objects collected by Arkas Holding Chairman Lucien Arkas for more than 30 years are exhibited in a three-storey historical building.
In the Aegean center of Bodrum, Bodrum Maritime Museum is adjacent to Bodrum Castle. Bodrumkolikler necessarily visit this museum. This museum, which started with 18 Bodrum-style boat models, now has exhibitions about Bodrum gulets, boat-building, fishing, shipping, sponge fishing and sea creatures. Dazzling museum with excellent interior architecture welcomes guests throughout the year.
The TCG Gayret and TCG Hızır Reis ships museums in the Gölcük Ship Museum in Kocaeli welcome guests. TCG Hizir Reis submarine, World War II for the United States said hello to the sea. After more than 30 years of duty, he was handed over to Turkish Navy in 1983. The submarine, which proudly carried the Turkish flag to the world's seas for 21 years, was retired in 2004. Subsequently, the submarine began to be exhibited at the Gölcük Ship Museum and continues with the mission of popularizing the maritime to its thousands of guests. TCG Hızır Reis' neighbor TCG Gayret'te launched for the United States of America and took an active role in the Korean and Vietnamese wars. In 1973, the ship ended its duty and began to work for the glorious Turkish Navy. TCG Gayret, which completed its life just like any other ship in 1995, started its activities in 1997 at Gölcük Ship Museum as the first ship museum.
When we go south from the Marmara Region, Mersin Maritime Museum offers 7 different exhibitions such as historical boats, metal works, wooden works, stone works, plastic works, textile works and paper works. The most important ships in the history of Turkish Maritime Hamidiye, Mahmudiye, Preveze, Yavuz, Nusret and Alemdar'a provides information digitally. In addition, floating objects used in the Navy are exhibited in the museum. The other exhibition to be seen is the evacuation boat of the Rafah vessel. Also, don't end your visit without stopping by the library, which has close to 800 books.
Mersin in Mersin Maritime Museum, Maritime Museum, Maritime Museum and the Dardanelles in Iskenderun in Turkey are the other leading maritime museum. However, the retired ships in our country serves as a museum in different points. These are Yarhisar Museum in Kocaeli, Nusret Mine Ship Museum in Mersin and Zübeyde Hanım and Training Ship in İzmir. In addition, one-to-one replicas of ships of high importance in our history serve as Gazi Alemdar Ship Museum in Ereğli and Bandırma Ship Museum in Samsun. Let us go with you to these ship museums and visit these museums one by one. It would be very unfortunate not to come to Mersin and visit the İskenderun Ship Museum, which is 200 km away.
Turkey's Iskenderun 3rd Naval Ship Museum is a museum. The museum, which contains the statues of the important sea captains of Turkish history, is also exhibited to Atatürk's love of the sea with different paintings and information notes. Models of ships, maritime swords, nautical mannequins, rifles and ship accessories are also exhibited in the museum. Again, we turn our route to the Aegean, 'Canakkale impassable', let alone 'Dardanelles from Exit is' Judging from contact with the road Dardanelles Ship Museum in the beautiful city of Canakkale our Turkey Let.
Canakkale Ship Museum established the rarest place in Turkey, giving refreshment to the people, it is a magnificent museum that does not leave the people walking through. The collection consists of 6 different products. These are: Swords, Medals, Firearms, Mines, Cannons and Uniforms. The museum, which has a lot of information, documents and objects about the Çanakkale Sea and Land Wars in 1915, can also be visited at the museum during the replica of the Acar ship and the Nusret ship used by the Great Leader Atatürk.
Apart from the museums belonging to the Turkish Navy and private individuals / companies, it continues to serve as a museum in one-to-one replicas of retired or landed ships that have been retired at sea or ashore. The three most prominent museums are: Gölcük Yarhisar Museum in Kocaeli, Nusret Mine Ship Museum in Mersin and Zübeyde Hanım and Training Ship in İzmir. Yarhisar Museum has served in the Turkish Navy as a reconnaissance / patrol vessel for 40 years. The museum, which is a good opportunity to see and feel life on board, also exhibits pictures, information notes, photographs and products describing the development of the Ottoman and Turkish navy. This ship is conditioned on land. The other condition is the Nusret ship in Mersin. The mine ship Nusret, which wrote epics in the Battle of Çanakkale, is exhibited in Tarsus with its grandeur. The ship survived the razor blade in Mersin at the last moment and was brought to Tarsus in three parts. The other famous ship museum is Zübeyde Hanım and Eğitim vessel in İzmir. After having served in the Istanbul Strait for years as Rumeli Kavağı, Zübeyde Hanım steamer (retired), photographs of our mother's mother, lens systems, pressure gauges, signal guns and lanterns are displayed. The ship provides training for seafarers in the museum and is also in the library.
Together with these three important ship museums, two replicas of our two ships, which are important in history but failed to survive, serve as museums by making replicas. Gazi Alemdar Ship Museum in Ereğli exhibits the life of the sailors with lifeless models. On the other hand, the waxes of Mustafa Kemal and his friends are in the Bandırma Ship Museum in Samsun. Mustafa Kemal's principality weapon is displayed in decrees and photographs. In addition, objects produced in the 1870s such as seafarers' watches and telephones are in the museum.
Yeah, you're at the end. Turkey, along with my esteemed readers of this article 4 of the first one we visited him. This article describes the sea and the ship museum for lovers of museums in Turkey will see a good tour guide duty. Turkey As I noted in my article, there are three types of ships museum understanding. The naval museums of the Turkish Navy and private individuals / companies are transformed into retired ships and finally exhibited by making replicas of ships of historical importance