Akşehir Nasreddin Hodja Archaeology and Ethnography Museum

The museum occupies a house rather than a purpose-built gallery. It was commissioned in 1914 by Rüştü Bey, an examining magistrate of Akşehir, and built by Turkish and Armenian craftsmen as a twin house with a basement and two timber-framed storeys. The mix of builders reflects the town itself, where several communities lived side by side and left their mark on local architecture.

The rooms are arranged by theme. The archaeological floor is split into six rooms in which finds are laid out period by period. The ethnographic floor goes for atmosphere: one room recreates the gathering of friends from a Nasreddin Hodja anecdote, another shows how an Akşehir bride's chamber was furnished, and further rooms hold everyday objects.

In the central hall look for two older pieces of woodwork and stone: the carved wooden door of the tomb of Seyyid Mahmud Hayrani, a work of 13th-century joinery, and a sarcophagus from the tomb of Şeyh Eyyüb. The building opened as a museum in July 2007 and has kept much of its original character.