Kuruköprü Memorial Museum

Eastern Mediterranean


Just off İnönü Caddesi, what was until recently the city's ethnography museum has now reopened as an art gallery with some ethnographic exhibits, including a traditional Adana house. It's housed in a former Orthodox church built in 1845 that later did time as a mosque before being converted into a museum in 1983.

Most of the exhibits once here have been moved to the huge new Adana Museum.


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