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Kuruköprü Monument Museum and Traditional Adana House

Kuruköprü Monument Museum and Traditional Adana House

A restored Greek Orthodox church in Adana, once the city museum, reopened in 2017 with a traditional Adana house alongside.

On September 30, 2026 the Ministry’s listing showed this museum as closed to visitors. Check the official page before planning a visit.

About the museum

The Kuruköprü Monument Museum occupies a former Greek Orthodox church in Adana. The Çukurova plain drew many civilizations with its fertile soil, and after an imperial edict in 1839 gave non-Muslim communities the right to build schools and houses of worship, churches rose in many Anatolian towns, this one among them.

The building has an unusual museum history. When Adana's antiquities museum was founded in 1924, its first home was a madrasa near Taşköprü; after that building was demolished the collection moved into this church. In 1937 the director added a section on Çukurova ethnography, and the institution took the name Ethnography Museum as well.

From 1950 the church served as the city museum, then became a depot after the archaeology museum opened in 1972, and returned to museum use after a restoration in 1983. A new restoration began in 2008 and 2013 and was completed in 2015. It was opened in 2017 as the Kuruköprü Monument Museum and Traditional Adana House, where the church and a typical local house can be seen together.

Tips

  • The source lists the museum as closed at the time of writing; check the official page before visiting.
  • Adana Museum, in the new museum complex, tells the wider story of the city's collections.

Questions

When is Kuruköprü Monument Museum and Traditional Adana House open?

According to the Ministry’s listing it opens at 08:30 and closes at 17:00 (last entry 16:30).

Can I buy tickets for Kuruköprü Monument Museum and Traditional Adana House on this site?

No. This site sells no tickets. Topkapı Palace, the Basilica Cistern, Hagia Sophia and Dolmabahçe Palace are sold on our sister sites; for Kuruköprü Monument Museum and Traditional Adana House, buy at the ticket office or on the Ministry’s official e-ticket system.

Where is Kuruköprü Monument Museum and Traditional Adana House?

Kuruköprü Monument Museum and Traditional Adana House is in Adana, Türkiye — Kuru Köprü Mahallesi, Ziyapaşa Bulvarı No:108.

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