Bursa Museum of Migration History

Bursa Museum of Migration History, a museum opened to the public in 2014 by the Bursa Metropolitan Municipality in Bursa to study and animate the city's migration history.

It is located on the second floor of the Merinos Atatürk Congress and Culture Center in Merinos Park. It welcomes visitors free of charge. Approximately 60,000 visitors are accommodated in the museum.

The museum contains information on the historical process from the migration of the Turks to Anatolia, the conquest of the city of Bursa by the Ottomans, to the Ottoman settlement towards the Balkans, as well as reenactments and objects related to the migration process back to Anatolia from the Balkans, the Caucasus, Crimea and surrounding areas. The migration from the Balkans is presented with a train reenactment, the migration from the Caucasus with a wagon and horse carriage, and the migration from Crimea with a ferry reenactment.

The majority of the collections in the museum, which consists of 9 sections, were obtained from Şinasi Çelikkol.

Sections

The museum's sections are as follows:

Prehistoric and Ancient Bursa settlements

Founding of the city of Bursa

Conquest of Bursa and Turkmen settlements

Conquest of the Balkans and the established Ottoman civilization

Migration from the Balkans to Bursa

Exchange migrations

Caucasian migrations

Migrations of the Tatar Turks from Crimea

"Bursa is the branch of a great tree rooted in a single trunk": a section where documents and photographs are shared about those who have settled in Bursa over 700 years from various regions of Anatolia, contributing to Turkey's important industry, trade, agriculture and tourism.