Textile museums and setting a textile museum model for Turkey

In this thesis which is named as; " Textile Museums and Setting a Textile Museum Model for Turkey", textile museums with different contents around the world and archeology and ethnography museums in Turkey that has textile contents are analysed and a textile museum model was set for Turkey. A new comprehensive museum model for Turkey was attempted by comparing archeology and textile museums in Turkey and in the World. Starting point of my work was to protect the Turkish textile culture that is about to disappear in Anatolia, which has been on textile routes for thousands of years, and to search for the conditions for creating a comprehensive Turkish textile museum that is timeless and self-sufficient in order to maintain the existence of our textile history. For this reason, in the introductry part of the study, the purpose of the research, the implications, limitations and definitions are included. In the first chapter; the place of textile in human and community life, Anatolian textile history, the oldest textile samples that have survived in the world and Turkey are mentioned. In the second part, examples of textile museums from the world, collection contents, exhibitons designed are mentioned. In the third chapter, textile museums in Turkey have been examined in detail in the context of the kinds of Textile museums. In the fourth chapter, the textile museum model is set for Turkey. In the final section, the results of the research are evaluated and summarized and the need of the contemporary textile museums in Turkey was emphaissed with reasons. The study was also completed with an Annex, which specifies the contents of the textile museums all over the world. As a result of this research; with general review of textile museum examples around the changing world, improving the necessity of a universal, modern, living, developing textile museum which will drive Turkish cultural identity forward by preserving and subsuming the thematic museums under its roof is emphasized.