Tire City Museum
{{short description|Museum in Turkey}}
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| name = Tire City Museum
| native_name = Tire Kent Müzesi
| native_name_lang = Turkish
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| coordinates = {{coord|38|05|18|N|27|43|56|E|region:TR_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
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| established = {{start date and age|2014}}
| location = Tire, İzmir Province, Turkey
| type = Ethnography, memorial
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Tire City Museum is located in Tire ilçe (district) in İzmir Province, Turkey, at {{coord|38|05|18|N|27|43|56|E}}. The building is the former city hall of Tire. It was built in 1955. After the construction of a newer building for the municipality, the former building was restored and opened as Tire City Museum on 15 October 2014.
Sections
The sections of the museum are as follows:[https://www.tirekentmuzesi.org Museum page]
- Entrance and the upper aisle: Tire etymology and history, Tire municipality and former mayors, Hakan Sepici's collections
- Lower aisle: ethnography (clothes, bath material)
- First hall: famous people of Tire origin such as Seha Gidel, Fuat Mensi Dileksiz, Tanju Okan, Gönül Duman, and Nejat Uygur
- Second hall and the market: endangered handicrafts
- Third hall: annually changing exhibits (in 2016, archaeology)
- Fourth hall: food culture, copperworks, pharmacy, clock repairing
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