Ulucanlar Prison Museum

Name: Ulucanlar Prison Museum
Address: Ankara, Türkiye
Rating: 4.7

Hacettepe, Ankara

4.7★★★★★★★★★★18.6K reviews

Converted prison, now an arts & culture center as well as a history museum offering tours of cells.

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Address: Hacettepe, Ulucanlar Cd. No:63, 06030 Altındağ/Ankara, Türkiye

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★★★★★★★★★★Ayoub Hanim· 9 months ago
Ulucanlar Prison Museum has a really significant history. It was originally built in 1925 in Ankara and served as a prison for 81 years. Throughout that time, it held many prominent figures from Turkey's political and cultural life, incl…
★★★★★★★★★★Jyldyz Sattarova· a year ago
It's worth visiting this museum because it has some political significance, which is still pertinent to the current situation in Turkey. This prison hosted some of the prominent Turkish writers, journalists, playwrights, politicians alon…
★★★★★★★★★★Bimo Mahesa· a month ago
Heavier visit than I expected going in. This was an actual working prison until 2006, and they've kept a lot of it exactly as it was rather than sanitizing it into a typical museum layout. The execution room and the cells where political…