For nine centuries of history in the neighborhood of Ankara, and the city has accumulated a sufficient number of priceless artifacts that are presented in a beautiful collection of artifacts of the Ethnographic Museum. The museum building is easy to find on the walls, white marble, and the statue at the entrance, which depicts a man sitting on a horse Ataturk as is popularly known as the founder of the Turkish Republic Mustafa Kemal. In the ethnographic museum collections of Ankara, describing the culture and life of the population: Muslim carpets, costumes, a variety of fabrics, folk musical instruments, textiles and porcelain products. Here, even the building of the museum is considered a separate and very valuable item.

The structure is located on a hill Namazga on the territory of a Muslim cemetery. For the purpose of the museum was donated to the hill, on the basis of the decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkey, Ministry of National Education, in November 1925.

Ethnographic museum was built by architect AH Koyunoglu, which is one of the most famous architects of the early republican period. To collect and purchase artefacts in a museum in Istanbul, a special commission headed by Prof. Celal Esad in 1924 and director of the Museums of Istanbul Halil Ethem in 1925. Selection of exhibits was completed only in 1927, when there were already more than a thousand. In the same year, and was appointed director of the museum. But the grand opening of the Museum of Ethnography was held only 18 July 1930, on the occasion of the visit of Afghan King. Two years before the museum was visited by the head of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal.

In November 1938, the Ethnographic Museum courtyard turned into a temporary Mausoleum Turkish reformer, whose body was here until 1953, when construction was completed mausoleum of Ataturk. Currently, this part of the museum is kept slab of white marble, on which the date of death of the father of the Turks, and the period when his body is in the museum. Ethnographic Museum served as a mausoleum for 15 years. It paid visits by official delegations from different countries. During this time he visited the presidents, ambassadors, foreign delegations, as well as ordinary citizens. Between 1953 and 1956 the building was carried out repair and restoration work, carried out preparation of the museum collection of the International Museum Week, which was held from 6 to 14 November 1956.

The building is rectangular, and its roof is decorated with a dome. The stone walls of the museum are covered with coarse sandstone and marble and facing gable has carved decorations. It is adjacent to the museum staircase of twenty-eight steps. Entrance to the building is composed of three parts, separated by four columns with arches. The main entrance leads to the hall under the dome and the courtyard decorated with a colonnade.

Initially, the center of the courtyard there was a marble swimming pool, and the roof of the building was open. However, after using the museum as a temporary mausoleum of Ataturk, the roof was closed and the pool had to move to the garden. Large and small halls symmetrical buildings surround the courtyard. Storey office complex is located next to the museum.

At the request of the Ministry of Education in 1927, Italian artist made a bronze statue of Mustafa Kemal, who is now standing in front of the museum. Exposition of ethnographic museum is a collection of examples of Turkish art from the Seljuk period from to the present.

Right from the entrance to the museum is a room devoted to the Anatolian wedding ceremony, wedding dresses on display here from various cities of Anatolia and a variety of wedding attributes. In the next room you can see the patterns and methods of the famous Turkish embroidery. Next is a department that introduces visitors to the Ethnographic Museum with craft hand-woven Turkish carpets and rugs. Visiting the next room you can see the Anatolian culture of coffee. The museum also has a department dedicated to the ceremony of circumcision.

To the left of the entrance is a section of tile and glass products in Turkey, utensils of porcelain and ceramics. Next room, which exhibits were donated by Besim Atalay. Other departments acquaint visitors with the art of Ottoman calligraphy, wooden artifacts of the best times of Seljuk period and the princely rule.