State Art and Sculpture Museum in ANKARA

The State Art and Sculpture Museum

  (in Turkish: Ankara Resim ve Müzesi Heykel) was built in 1927 by architect Arif Hikmet Koyunoglu on the direction of Ataturk in Ankara, Turkey. It is close to the Ethnography Museum and houses a rich collection of Turkish art from the late 19th Century to the present. There are also galleries for guest events.
The museum was reopened after restoration of the building in 1980.
Today the museum is a center of art, in which the most important works of the artists that play an important role in the development of Turkish art, painting and sculpture, which only a very short story are right in comparison to more traditional branches of the art be played on display. In addition to the collections of works of art reflect the formation and development of the Turkish times, performing arts, and its classification and the Library of Fine Arts, which fulfills the gap in this area, each year, enriched by the donations of publishing, domestic or Foreign and foreign embassies, or by new purchases, the archives of the Turkish artists to respond satisfactorily to the needs of researchers working in these areas.The State Art and Sculpture Museum, Ankara
The protection of works of art, which is one of the most important tasks of the museum in addition to training is to ensure through the use of a specially developed method to get the best results done in dealing with the problems arising from temperature, humidity and sorting problems . Any damage caused by aging, which may occur in spite of protection are measured by experts in the special unit, which was established restored as a separate division within the established museum.
During the restoration of the building in 1980 and in subsequent years, a further important point to considerable stress was laid on the serve, the construction of workshops of painting, sculpture and ceramics, artists, amateurs and professionals.
What are the security measures that the entire building with a closed-circuit TV, ultrasonic detection and fire alarm systems to be able to control every part of the museum is equipped.
In addition to the workshop at which the original painting and printing courses that are open to the public about the capacity of the museum, special workshops for the Turkish decorating art, ceramics are required, and sculpture in a short time.
Exhibitions of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, art and photography printing programmed to take in Turkey in the framework of international cultural agreements in the three galleries reserved for temporary exhibitions drawn up and these that made works of art of foreign countries known to Turkish public opinion. In addition, exhibitions of Turkish art from the museum's collection is selected, organized abroad in the framework of international cultural agreements. In addition to these exhibitions, retrospectives organized by the General Directorate of Fine Arts; individual exhibitions and competitive exhibitions are among the other activities of the museum.
In the historic hall, which was transformed to its original design during the restoration, various activities such as concerts, theatrical performances and film screenings take place.
Serving the public with its modern cafeteria, shop and audio system of the institution is a place for old art exhibition, with all the attributes of the modern museum of Arts.