Center for Science, Culture, & Art

After breakfast this morning, Deniz, Mui, and I returned to Sazova Park to check out the Turkic World Center for Science, Culture, and Art, which is housed under a big dome.

The center operates under the auspices of Anadolu University. It’s mission, in part, is to research, study and reveal centuries-old customs, traditions, and cultural values of the Turkic World and disseminate them through the generations.

The History of Science Museum is on the upper floor, in blocks of rooms representing the civil and official architecture of the Seljuk and Ottoman periods. In each room is the wax figure of someone who has made important contributions to the various fields of science. Info panels and screens describe the accomplishments of each individual. Although the vast majority of names were unfamiliar to us, we recognized several from our history lessons in middle and high school.

On the lower floor, the only area open to visitors was a big room filled with musical instruments through the ages.Leia mais