Museum of Natural History was created on the orders of President Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal). Seventh February 1968 the museum opened its doors to visitors. Since 2004 and until recently it was closed for restoration. Following the repair work, the complex was opened under the name of the Ankara Museum of Natural History, which is one of the greatest museums in the nature of Turkey. Here are natural artifacts dating back millions of years, including precious stones and minerals. The museum has a special department for the blind in which the exhibits are explained with the help of Braille and audio, so visitors can walk blind to the museum, without needing the help of a guide.

The museum houses a collection of about 10,000 items, in addition to seventy-five thousand units is now in the museum's archive at the stage of preparation for the exhibition. The museum is housed in the Office of the MTA takes 4,000 square meters and has three floors and five main sections.

The first floor is completely allotted paleontology, which presents 6400 exhibits. There is a stuffed dinosaur, bought in America, put up a fake elephant who lived fifteen million years ago in France, and was donated to the museum patrons of France. Also it carried out the installation of the skeleton Marash elephant, found in a bog 'Gavur Gölü' 'who lived in these parts for a thousand years BC.

In this section are the fossilized remains of a huge slope, length and a half meters, which lived 193 million years ago in Ankara - Kёserelika. Also here are the footprints of ancient people who lived in Asia Minor, twenty-five thousand years ago, the jaw of a whale who lived in Anatolia and found in Adana-Karatas.

In addition, you can get acquainted with the flora and fauna found in the area Kyzyldzhamam-Gyuvem. Presented here are the exhibits in the area of ​​about thirteen - fifteen million years ago. In addition, the visitors are offered more than one hundred species of plants and insect families, among which marked extinct species and those that are endangered.

The second floor of the museum is reserved for exhibits, which give information about the mineralogy, as well as to meet international standards of value. There are about 3300 units. This section of the museum is the moonstone, which was delivered to an American astronaut who flew to the moon. The stone has another name '' Sivas stone. ''

On this floor there are all sorts of stones and varieties of Turkish marble, as well as a meteorite, which fell in 1989 on the village of Sheikh Khalil Yyldyzeli.

Even on the second floor there is a section where all kinds of weapons and metal for metal alloys collection, numbering two hundred samples.

The museum also has an exhibition sheds light on the research of the Office of the AIT, provides a means of work, research, information, demonstrations and other exhibits.

The museum is visited by approximately forty - fifty thousand visitors a year. It publishes books, guides, instructions, brochures, serving for the convenience of visitors to the museum. It hosts conferences, shown slides and documentaries. He is actively involved in education: primary, secondary, higher, provides young people the rare nature of information on the history of our Earth.