Eskişehir_Meerschaum_Museum

Eskişehir Meerschaum Museum

Eskişehir Meerschaum Museum

Add article description

Eskişehir Meerschaum Museum (Turkish: Lületaşı Müzesi) is a handicraft museum in Odunpazarı district of Eskişehir, Turkey, exhibiting various items handmade of sepiolite (Meerschaum).

Quick Facts Established, Location ...
An unused meerschaum pipe.

Sepiolite or Meerschaum is a soft white clay mineral, which is mainly used to handicraft tobacco pipes called Meerschaum pipes. The opaque and off-white, grey or cream colored mineral is soft when extracted. However, it hardens on exposure to solar heat or when dried in a warm place. This feature allows it to give a permanent shape after carving it at soft state. Meerschaum deposits are found in Eskişehir region, generally at first rank in the world, in depths up to 150 m (490 ft).[1]

The exhibited items of the museum were collected by Eskişehir Governorship during the International Meerschaum Festival, Meerschaum handicraft competitions and exhibits held in Eskişehir since 1998. Around 400 items handmade by 60 artisans were left to Odunpazarı Municipality. The museum was established by Odunpazarı Municipality inside the Kurşunlu Complex at Odunpazarı as the world's only in its kind in 2008.[1][2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Lületaşı Müzesi" (in Turkish). Odunpazarı Belediyesi. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
  2. [2]
    "Dünyanın İlk Lületaşı Müzesi - Eskişehir Lületaşı". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2012-01-21. Retrieved 2017-04-14.


Stub icon 1 Stub icon 2

This article related to a museum in Turkey is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Eskişehir_Meerschaum_Museum, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.