Cumhuriyet Museum

Marmara University’s Cumhuriyet Museum consists of the Original Print Collection and the Art Gallery and İhap Hulusi Görey Gallery, where short-term exhibitions are held.

The history of Marmara University’s Cumhuriyet Museum Original Print Collection stretches back to the Modern Turkish Engraving exhibition, held to mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Turkish Republic. This exhibition, which consisted of 116 works from 38 different artists, selected by Professor Mustafa Aslıer, and was held in many cities in Turkey and in a number of different countries.

After the exhibitions, these works were donated to the State School for Applied Fine Arts and formed the essence of Marmara University’s Cumhuriyet Museum Original Print Collection.

The collection was enriched in 1998 by the call Professor Hüsamettin Koçan, the dean of the Fine Arts School at Marmara University, made to artist and collectors for donations, was exhibited in 1999 as “The Exhibition Imagined by the Museum” first in Istanbul, and then went on the road with the "Sanat-tırproject. The exhibition, covering 3,636 kilometers, was held in Diyarbakır, Van, Erzurum and Bayburt.

The project to transform the Sultanahmet Rector’s Building into a center for cultural events and a museum was designed by Profesor Hüsamettin Koçan, and with the approval of the rector of Marmara University at that time, Dr. Ömer Faruk Batırel work began. However, after Batırel the project came to a halt.

With the efforts of Dr. Necla Pur, who started serving as rector in 2007, the project was restarted and upon completion in 2008, the Marmara University Cumhuriyet Museum was opened.

The İhap Hulusi Görey gallery was established by Dr Zafer Gül in 2010 as part of the celebration of the 87th anniversary of the establishment of the Turkish Republic, being added to the Marmara University Cumhuriyet Museum.

The Marmara University Cumhuriyet Museum is open every day, except Mondays and public holidays, from 10:00-18:00.


This page updated by Bilgi İşlem Daire Başkanlığı on 26.12.2016 14:11:21

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