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Turkeys first and only forest museum, located in the palace known as the Watchmakers Palace. The pavilion is one of the most beautiful examples of 19th century civic architecture. It is worth seeing with the garden fountain, pergola, and various trees. It began to be used as a museum in 1989. There are more than three thousand forest works from the Ottoman Empire to the present. There are pictures describing forest life, the tools they use, the tools of communication in the forest, maps, and a collection of important fossils. 350-year-old carbon fossils, 50 million-year-old pine, cedar and nut fossils and a two-million-year-old Sequoia fossil are shown. There are also stuffed animals, insects, and tree sections to identify the animals that live in the forest.
