The countdown has begun for the Denizli City Museum
"The long-awaited Denizli City Museum, which the city has dreamed of for many years, has been completed. Mayor Osman Zolan, who stated that the Denizli City Museum, where the artifacts have been displayed in showcases, will be put into service in a short time, said, 'Denizli is achieving another great dream.'
The project, which started with the restoration of the old Industrial Vocational High School, known as stone buildings, to serve as the Denizli City Museum, has been completed. It is learned that the museum, implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Denizli Governorship, and Denizli Metropolitan Municipality, will be opened to visitors shortly after the artifacts were finally placed in the showcases. Mayor Osman Zolan of Denizli Metropolitan Municipality stated that the city museum, which has been a dream for many years, will make a significant contribution to Denizli tourism and will contribute significantly to the transfer of historical values to future generations as a permanent work and a significant contribution to the city's memory. Mayor Osman Zolan emphasized the importance of not losing Denizli's values, transferring them to the future, and learning people's own cultures to know their past, saying, 'Our Denizli, especially our Pamukkale, our thermal waters, our ski center, our 19 ancient cities, and many other natural, historical, and cultural riches we cannot name. Denizli is a city with many natural, historical, and cultural riches. We promised to build a city museum, which is a dream for all of us to further advance Denizli in tourism and add beauty to the beauty of our Denizli. Thanks to God, we promised and we did it.'
Denizli is achieving another great dream," continued Mayor Zolan. "Inside our museum, we will showcase history, textiles, industry, agricultural production, handicrafts, the tradition of Ahi Brotherhood, and our National Struggle. Our beauties that tell our past will be exhibited. Thank God, our deficiencies have been completed. In a short time, we will open the doors of our museum to visitors with a fitting opening ceremony. Denizli is achieving another great dream. May it be blessed and auspicious from now on."
The Denizli City Museum, which will have a closed area of 2,570 square meters, will feature many values from the Republic era to the Ottoman era, from Denizli's culinary culture to Denizli's heroes. Exhibits will include rooms depicting household culture, Denizli's culinary culture, Denizli's role in the National Struggle, prominent figures of Denizli, Denizli's history, Atatürk's great Aegean tour, agriculture, industry, economy, and social life in the late Ottoman - early Republic period in the region, Denizli's heroes, Denizli handicrafts, weaving from the Ottoman period to the present, fabric shops, traditional crafts of Denizli from the past to the present, commercial life, Denizli houses, Denizli architecture, and symbols of Denizli, among many other exhibits. These dozens of values will be exhibited in the Denizli City Museum.