Lületaşı Müzesi (Meerschaum Museum)
Lületaşı Müzesi
A museum celebrating the mineral used to make ornate, carved tobacco pipes.

📜 Established in 2008, this museum is located within a 16th-century mosque complex in Odunpazarı old town.
🔍 It showcases around 400 items handmade from sepiolite (meerschaum), a soft white clay mineral used for tobacco pipes.

Why Go

💎 Explore unique meerschaum pipes, jewelry, chess sets, and portrait busts.
🌍 Discover the world's only museum dedicated to meerschaum handicraft.
✨ Learn about the local history of sepiolite and master carvers.
🆓 Enjoy free admission.

Tips

🧭 Find the museum in the southwest corner of the Kurşunlu Külliyesi mosque complex; climb the staircase and enter the door on the left.

💰 Cost

Free to the public.

Last updated 28 days ago

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