Museum sights in Bursa
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City Museum
Bursa has a state-of-the-art City Museum, housed in what was once the old courthouse at Heykel. Ground-floor exhibits whip through the history of the city, with information on the sultans most closely associated with it. Unfortunately, the labelling is in Turkish only, apart from the section headings. Luckily the cultural and ethnographical collections upstairs need little explanation.
Down in the basement there are reconstructions of old shops which are wonderful, with films showing old-fashioned artisans at work. Newspaper clippings also show a couple of local characters to look out for: Deli Ayten, the banjo-playing bag lady, and 'Tarzan Ali', a 59-year-old former…
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Karagöz Sanat Evi
In Bursa, Şinasi Çelikkol has worked hard to keep the tradition of Karagöz puppetry alive and was instrumental in the setting up of the Karagöz Sanat Evi, opposite the Karagöz monument. It houses a small museum of puppetry with some magnificent examples from Uzbekistan. Şinasi Çelikkol's ethnographical collection is also on display here. If you would like to see the collection privately call into his shop - called, inevitably, Karagöz - in the Eski Aynalı Çarşı for an appointment.
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Turkish & Islamic Arts Museum
Housed in Yeşil Camii's former medrese, this museum contains pre-Ottoman İznik ceramics, the mosque's original door and mihrab curtains, jewellery, embroidery, calligraphy and dervish artefacts.
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Tofaş Museum of Anatolian Carriages
Old cars and horse-drawn carts are housed in this former silk factory with gardens. It's a short walk uphill south from Setbaşı, along Sakaldöken Caddesi.
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Ulumay Museum of Ottoman Folk Costumes & Jewellery
Also near the Sultan Murat II Camii is the Ulumay Museum of Ottoman Folk Costumes & Jewellery, an impressive private collection housed in the 1475 Sair Ahmet Paşa medrese.
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Ottoman House Museum
Across the park from the Sultan II Murat Camii mosque is the Ottoman House Museum. On the western side of the tombs is the 15th-century Muradiye Medresesi, a theological seminary restored in 1951 as a tuberculosis clinic.
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Archaeology Museum
Inside the cultural Park, this museum displays predominantly classical finds from local sites.
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Karagöz Museum
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Bursa City Museum
Chronicling Bursa's history from the earliest sultans to War of Independence relics and cultural and ethnographic collections, this museum also offers multimedia touch screens on notable 20th-century local actors and musicians, plus films showing old-fashioned artisans at work.
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