Yaşar Museum

Yaşar Museum is a private museum located in the Konak district of İzmir. The museum, which has collections of painting, archaeology and ethnography, was opened to visitors on 17 January 2026 in a former sugar factory building built in 1895 that was restored by the Yaşar Education and Culture Foundation.

The museum is a continuation of Selçuk Yaşar Painting Museum, Turkey's first private painting museum founded in 1985, and was created by adding archaeology and weaving collections to the existing painting collection.

Key facts

Type: historic building, factory, museum
Area: 1,613 m²
Located in: Aegean Region
Named after: Selçuk Yaşar

Facts from Wikidata.

Coordinates: 38.437843, 27.161694Open in Google Maps

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Sources

The text on this page is translated from: Yaşar Müzesi (tr.wikipedia.org), as of 28 April 2026

Text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.