Necmi İğe Evi Ethnography Museumvisitor guide.

Located next to Sarı Mosque on Mimar Sinan Street in Meydan Neighborhood, this 18th-century mansion represents Edirne's oldest surviving example of civilian vernacular architecture. The mansion was occupied by Edirne Defterdar Emin Bey and his family. After standing vacant for a period, Necmi İğe and his family moved into the mansion. Today serving as a museum, this mansion spans approximately 900 square meters; it is an exceptionally vital structure for Edirne's ethnography in terms of historical fabric, use of materials, layout composition, and reflection of period lifestyle. Built with haremlik and selamlık sections, the mansion comprises a ground floor, mezzanine, and upper floor. Containing 7 rooms and 6 raised seating platforms (seki), this structure preserves traces of our cultural and traditional values. Every corner of the Necmi İğe House Ethnography Museum holds clues to everyday life of the period. The museum narrates our region's wedding traditions, handicrafts, customs, and mores. Traditional rituals such as asking for the bride's hand, dowry room, henna night, groom's shave, religious marriage ceremony, lead pouring, wedding banquet, bridal bath, and bridal chamber customs are recreated. Folk costumes belonging to Rumelia and the Balkans are displayed. Our museum aims to pass down the lifestyle culture, social fabric, and folklore of our region to coming generations. Necmi İğe, One of the Founders of Edirne Museum Necmi İğe was born in 1898 in the İğcioğlu Ahmet Ağa Mansion near Muradiye slope in Edirne's Küçükpazar district. In 1922, they relocated to the mansion adjacent to Sarı Mosque on Mimar Sinan Street owned by his maternal uncle, Edirne Defterdar Emin Bey. Necmi İğe lived in this mansion until his death. This mansion is known today as Necmi İğe House. Although registered in the census as Ahmet Necmeddin, until his death the people of Edirne addressed him as 'Necmi Brother'. The protector of the lonely, Edirne's beloved 'Necmi Brother' passed away from a heart attack on December 8, 1953, at age 55. DOWNLOAD MUSEUM BROCHURE NEARBY MUSEUMS EDIRNE MUSEUM TURKISH AND ISLAMIC ARTS MUSEUM EDIRNE HIDIRLIK REDOUBT BALKAN HISTORY MUSEUM