Konya Ethnography Museum

The building was first constructed for education and became the Ethnography Museum in 1975. It has three storeys. The ground floor holds the exhibition hall and a conference room named for Dr. Mehmet Önder, while the upper level is for offices, a library and storage.

The exhibition hall focuses on Konya and its surroundings and shows items acquired by purchase, gift and transfer from other museums. Among them are needle-lace edgings, embroidered wraps and pouches, samples of late Ottoman fabrics, bridal and festive clothing such as waistcoats, caftans and trousers, and women's jewellery including belt buckles and bracelets.

Other cases hold coffee sets and grinders, metal, glass and porcelain kitchenware, bath bowls, prayer beads, calligraphy tools, manuscripts and mother-of-pearl inlaid furniture. There are also Seljuk, Ottoman and Republican-era carpets and kilims, together with bows, daggers, swords and older firearms. The collections include the ethnographic holdings of Refet Yardımcı and Kenan Özbel.