Tire City Museum is located in Tire ilçe (district) in İzmir Province, Turkey, at . The building is the former city hall of Tire. It was built in 1955. After the construction of a newer building for the municipality, the former building was restored and opened as Tire City Museum on 15 October 2014.

Sections

The sections of the museum are as follows:Museum page Entrance and the upper aisle: Tire etymology and history, Tire municipality and former mayors, Hakan Sepici's collections Lower aisle: ethnography (clothes, bath material) First hall: famous people of Tire origin such as Seha Gidel, Fuat Mensi Dileksiz, Tanju Okan, Gönül Duman, and Nejat Uygur Second hall and the market: endangered handicrafts Third hall: annually changing exhibits (in 2016, archaeology) Fourth hall: food culture, copper works, pharmacy, clock repair

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