Yozgat Museumvisitor guide.

In this modest initial building, early collections began to be assembled through donations from citizens, purchases, field surveys, and antiquities transferred from the Ankara Ethnography Museum. Simultaneously, an active search was initiated for a suitable museum building; in 1979, the registered historical Nizamoğlu Mansion expropriated by the Ministry of Culture was allocated to open as a museum. Because the mansion was extensively weathered and worn down, restoration works commenced in 1980; repairs and display arrangements were completed by the end of 1984, entering public service as a museum in 1985. Considering that the main mansion was unsuitable for administrative offices, an adjacent two-story wooden building was expropriated at the end of 1983 to serve as administrative offices on the ground floor and personnel lodgings on the upper floor, entering service together with the museum. Arslan Torun devoted immense effort and dedication to the founding and opening of the museum. Following its inauguration in 1985, newly appointed specialized staff enriched the museum collections through regional rescue excavations and archaeological field surveys. Nizamoğlu Mansion was opened essentially as an Ethnography Museum. Karslıoğlu Mansion, expropriated in 1980–1981, was originally envisioned as an Archaeology Museum with corresponding restoration and exhibition preparations carried out; however, it could never be opened as an archaeology museum due to staffing shortages and preservation considerations regarding the building. Yozgat Museum commenced operations on April 13, 1977, as a Museum Office in a single-story building located in the courtyard of the historic Cumhuriyet School—now used as the Rectorate of Bozok University—when Nevşehir Museum Assistant Arslan Torun, himself a native of Yozgat, was appointed to Yozgat, forming the nucleus of the Museum Directorate. DOWNLOAD MUSEUM BROCHURE