İzmir Ethnography Museum
İzmir Etnografya Müzesi
A free museum housed in a former Greek hospital, recreating Ottoman-era wedding customs, a pharmacy and craft workshops.
The museum occupies a 19th-century building, the St. Roch Hospital, and its neoclassical stone structure is worth seeing in its own right. Life-size displays recreate traditional life in İzmir: an Ottoman bridal chamber and circumcision room, an old pharmacy, camel-bell making, a felt-hat workshop, copperware and embroidery. Visitors can also learn how nazar glass beads (evil eye charms) are made. Admission is free. It is closed on Mondays (check locally), and opening hours are roughly 09:00–17:00. It faces the archaeology museum across the street.
Opening hours
About 09:00–17:00 (closed Mondays)
Nearby sights
- İzmir Archaeological Museum
- Izmir Clock Tower & Konak Square
- Kemeraltı Bazaar
- Kızlarağası Han
- Hisar Mosque
- Agora of Smyrna
- Asansör
- St. Polycarp Church