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The Turkish Natural History Museum was founded in 1968 by the Institute of Mineral Research in Ankara. Exhibition halls of the Natural History Museum display 5000 important and valuable samples, gathered from Turkey and the rest of the world. With the studies on earth sciences at every corner of Turkey large amounts of samples including fossils and minerals have been collected in the museum. And also numerous fossils and minerals were given as a present from the universities and institutions. All these specimens were the first members of the collection of the museum. Some of the Museum exhibits are donations and bear the names of the donating individual or organization.

The State Art and Sculpture Museum is a museum dedicated to fine arts and sculpture in Ankara, Turkey. It was designed in 1927 by architect Arif Hikmet Koyunoğlu and built between 1927 and 1930 as the Türkocağı Building, upon the direction of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first President of Turkey. It is located close to the Ethnography Museum and houses a rich collection of Turkish art from the late 19th century to the present day. Its impressive collection of contemporary art has made it one of the cornerstones of culture in Ankara. There are also galleries for guest exhibitions.

The Anatolian Civilizations Museum (Museum of Ancient Anatolian Civilizations) with its original collections is considered to be one of the top Museums in the world today. Within this Ottoman building, the museum has a number of exhibits of Anatolian archaeology, that start from the Paleolithic Age up to the present time.The exhibits of gold, silver, glass, marble and bronze works date back as far as the second half of the first millennium BC. The coin collections, with examples ranging from the first minted money to modern times, represent the museum's rare cultural treasures. The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations reaching the present time with its historical buildings and its deeply rooted history was elected as the first "European Museum of the Year" in Switzerland on April 19, 1997.