State Art and Sculpture Museum

The State Art and Sculpture Museum Ankara ( Turkish Ankara Devlet Resim ve Heykel Muzesi) is a museum in Ankara Ulus district, close to the Ethnography Museum of Ankara. It was at the direction of the nation's founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk planned by architect Arif Hikmet Koyunoglu and built in 1927. The used up to the year 1950 as the Community Center ( People's House ) building was converted into a museum in 1980. In 1985 the museum was restored by the Foundation of Hacı Ömer Sabancı.

In the museum, paintings, sculptures and statues, ceramics, prints and Turkish decorative art will be exhibited from times before the founding of the Republic until today. In the first section of works by painters and artists like Şeker Ahmet Paşa, Zekai Pasha, Halil Serif Pasha and Ali Pasha, Hoca shown while in the second division works by artists from the period of the Republic, as İbrahim Çallı, Hikmet Onat and Namik Ismail, take their place.

In 2010, thieves have left the museum instead of 13 charcoal drawings, photocopies, in addition, it was found that five of any artist associated panels have been lost.