Politics · Turkey · 2 hrs ago
Historic Ankara vineyard house to become a museum
A historic house in Ankara’s Ayrancı district is being planned as a museum about the city’s social history.
The Mehmet Kınacı Vineyard House and a glass pyramid on its grounds have been allocated to Çankaya Municipality for cultural use at no cost for 25 years.
The municipality is working with Ankara Metropolitan Municipality on the project.
The planned museum will show Ankara’s everyday life, trades and social structure through documents, objects, ephemera and visual archives.
Researchers, experts and collectors are helping shape the project and gather material.
A newly expanded third edition of the book “Memories of Ankara, Professions and Social Life” has also been published to help establish the museum’s historical basis.
The sources do not give a date for the museum’s opening.
Çankaya Municipality has begun work to turn the historic Mehmet Kınacı Vineyard House in Ankara’s Ayrancı district into a museum.
The house and a glass pyramid structure on its site have been allocated to the municipality free of charge for 25 years for cultural use.
The planned museum aims to reflect Ankara’s everyday life, crafts and social structure.
A new expanded edition of a book documenting Ankara’s urban memory has been published as part of the project.
- Who
- Çankaya Municipality is leading the project with Ankara Metropolitan Municipality.
- What
- The historic Mehmet Kınacı Vineyard House is to become a museum.
- When
- The article was published on 12 October 2026; the project start date is not stated.
- Where
- Kuloğlu Street, in the Ayrancı district of Ankara.
- Why
- The museum is intended to preserve the city’s memory and reflect its everyday life, crafts and social structure.
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The house and the glass pyramid on its site were allocated to Çankaya Municipality for cultural use for 25 years at no cost.
Project planning began to turn the property into a museum.
An expanded third edition of the book “Anılarda Ankara, Meslekler ve Sosyal Hayat” was published.
- Property
- Mehmet Kınacı Vineyard House
- District
- Ayrancı, Ankara
- Allocation period
- 25 years
- Cost of allocation
- Free of charge
- Book
- Anılarda Ankara, Meslekler ve Sosyal Hayat
- Book edition
- Expanded third edition
Sources
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