As a person who travels from city to city to see the tourism values of my country, I have seen the Museum Card system, which was implemented during the Ertuğrul Günay period, the Minister of Culture and Tourism, which was highly criticized in the government, as a very successful practice.
Dosimm and Museum-Anıtlar General With the museum card project, which was jointly prepared by the Directorate of Tourism and realized with the sponsorship of TÜRSAB, every Turkish citizen who would pay 20 TL to issue a ‘museum card’ was given the opportunity to visit 180 museums and 130 historical sites under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism for free.. Students and teachers could have a museum card by paying 10 TL for the museum card, and 2 TL for those under the age of 12. it was a big project. It’s impossible not to support it.
Since I don’t go out of town much during the winter period, I didn’t feel the need to buy a museum card either.. During my trips to Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, which started in July, I was attracted by the museum card poster I came across when I stepped on Van Akdamar Island.. Since I was going to visit many museums in the region, I immediately applied to the desk clerk and told him that I wanted a museum card.. Well, I said…
After visiting the island and coming back to the box office hoping to get my card, what should I see? A card that says “Temporary Museum Card”. I had to replace this card with the original museum card in a few limited touristic areas in Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir and Antalya within 2 months.
Akdamar Island Entrance
It made me feel stressed.. I am always sensitive to time-limited uses.. We returned to Van when we were wondering where to change it, how to do it.. On the one hand, I wonder if I should go to Istanbul, Topkapı Palace or something, by reading the card exchange points; I was saying that I would change my card under the pretext. Later, I came to my senses saying that I would go to Istanbul for a 10-lira card.. I got angry once again with the answer that we can’t make changes here at every box office. It also caused us to fight over the bargaining of the man at the entrance to Hasankeyf for the entrance fee.
This time we went to Ephesus
When I returned to İzmir after 1.5 months a light appeared in the milk of my head. Together with my friend who came to see me, we took my mother and hit the road, towards the Ancient City of Ephesus…. This was one of the exchange points written on the back of the temporary card.
Wouldn’t the attendant say very boldly: “We don’t have a card, we give temporary museum cards to everyone, you can change it from Istanbul“!