Sadberk Hanım Museum

The Vehbi Koç Foundation Sadberk Hanım Museum is located in two separate buildings. The first of these is a building that is considered to have been built at the end of the 19th century, consisting of three full roofs, and is modeled after European folk traditional architecture in style. It was built in wood/bagdadi style on a masonry floor and is known as "Azaryan Mansion". The mansion was purchased by the Koç family in 1950 and was used as a summer residence until 1978, when it was decided to turn it into a museum. Between 1978 and 1980, with the implementation of a restoration project prepared by Sedat Hakkı Eldem, the building was converted into a museum and the Sadberk Koç Collection was opened to visitors on October 14, 1980 to be exhibited.

Azaryan Mansion, which is 4280 square meters with its garden, occupies an area of ​​400 square meters. On the ground floor, there is a gift shop and a small tea room. The ceiling of the main entrance, which is not used today, is decorated with papier-mâché cassettes inspired by ancient Roman architecture. The floors are accessed by wooden stairs and the walls are painted with marble imitation pencil work. The middle main halls of the first and second floors above the ground floor and the rooms opening to them are used as exhibition spaces. In the attic, there are work storages, study rooms and a library.

On the exterior of the building, between the windows, (X) shaped wooden decorations separate the building from other mansions. In addition, the hobnails on the surface of the building have caused it to be called "Screw Mansion" among the people.

Another half-destroyed waterfront mansion, located next to the existing building and thought to have been built in the early 20th century, was rebuilt in accordance with its original façade so that the Kocabaş works, which were purchased by the Vehbi Koç Foundation in 1983 and added to the Sadberk Hanım Museum collections, can be exhibited. . The construction of the museum, whose restoration project was prepared by İbrahim Yalçın, took two years. This museum, which was opened on October 24, 1988 under the name of "Sevgi Gönül Binası", exhibits pre-Islamic archaeological artifacts. It was awarded the 1988 "Europa Nostra" award for its contemporary museum practice.

The front of the building, which was built as reinforced concrete, is covered with wood. The side is plastered with wood imitation marble. This precaution has been taken against the risk of fire. There are a multi-purpose hall and a conservation laboratory on the ground floor of the building, which has three floors from the front and four floors from the back.

Archaeological artifacts are exhibited in chronological order on the main and mezzanine floors. The exhibition area is 625 square meters in total. The hall at the entrance is Afyon white, the stairs and the floor of the exhibition halls are covered with black Adapazarı marble. The exhibition halls were closed to daylight and the showcases gained the identity of a modern museum with contemporary lighting.