Museums in İzmir: Top Places

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Zübeyde Hanım Education and Museum Ship is a museum ship named after Atatürk's mother Zübeyde Hanım, which was opened in Izmir in March 2014 as both a museum and an education center explaining maritime.

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Izmir History and Art Museum is a museum that served between 2004-2025 within Kültürpark, in the city of Izmir, Turkey. It presented artifacts unearthed in excavations in Izmir and its surroundings to its visitors in three separate sections: Stone Artifacts Section, Ceramic Artifacts Section, and Precious Artifacts Section. It was visited by more than one hundred thousand visitors every year.

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Yaşar Museum is a private museum located in the Konak district of İzmir. The museum, which has painting, archaeology, and ethnography collections, was opened to visitors on January 17, 2026, in an old flour factory building built in 1895 and restored by the Yaşar Education and Culture Foundation.

Key Museum is an automobile museum located in the Torbalı district of Izmir. Opened on May 6, 2015, the museum, with its 7,000 m2 area and its 76 automobiles and 40 motorcycles, is Turkey's most comprehensive automobile museum. The model years of the vehicles in the museum range from the late 1880s to 2011.

USS Ainsworth is a retired Knox-class frigate named for Vice Admiral Walden L. Ainsworth. ; launched on 15 April 1972; sponsored by Mrs.

USS Tang, the lead ship of her class, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tang. She was the first American submarine designed under the Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program for underwater performance rather than surfaced speed and handling. Key features included removing the deck guns, streamlining the outer hull, replacing the conning tower with a sail, installing new propellers designed for submerged operations, installing more air conditioning and a snorkel mast, and doubling the battery capacity.

The Agora of Smyrna, alternatively known as the Agora of İzmir, is an ancient Roman agora located in Smyrna. Originally built by the Greeks in the 4th century BC, the agora was ruined by an earthquake in 178 AD. Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius ordered its reconstruction.

Bostanlı Open-air Archaeological Museum is an open-air archaeological museum in Karşıyaka district of İzmir, Turkey.

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İzmir Women's Museum is a museum in İzmir, Turkey. It is at 38°25′15″N 27°08′32″E in Konak secondary municipality of İzmir. It is the first women's museum to be established in Turkey. The museum building is a three floor-historical building in Tilkilik neighborhood. With a bay window it is a "typical" İzmir house, with a total of 13 rooms. It was opened on 23 January 2014.

Latife Hanım Mansion Memorial House is a museum located on Bahriye Üçok Boulevard in Karşıyaka District, İzmir Province, Turkey. The Uşakizade Mansion, which was the summer house of Latife Hanım's family and where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's mother Zübeyde Hanım spent her last days, was opened to visitors as a 'Memorial House' in 2008 and registered as a museum in 2016.

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The Handicrafts Museum, located in Bornova, İzmir, is housed within the historical Mattheys Mansion. The mansion, believed to have been built in 1780 by the English John Maltass, was restored by Arkas Holding between 2018 and 2023. The museum showcases the Arkas Carpet Collection, featuring Anatolian carpets from the 16th to 19th centuries. Mattheys Mansion also hosted Mustafa Kemal Pasha during the Turkish War of Independence. The nearest public transport stop is Evka 3 metro station, 671 meters away. Within walking distance are the Ege University Natural History Museum (175 m), Yeşil Köşk (704 m), and Büyük Park (325 m).