ITU provides public access to its museums, exhibition spaces, galleries around its campuses. Artifacts from ITU’s long history is being displayed all year around and exhibitions with various themes are opened time to time.
ITU Museum has opened recently in the ITU Rectorate Building. During the opening the Rector gave a speech about the 250th year of ITU. Stating that the priceless treasures of science are exhibited in the ITU Museum, the rector said that in this museum, not only will one witness the 250-year journey of ITU, but also will have the chance to watch the scientific adventure in these lands.
Turkey's first diesel engine which was produced by our graduate Prof. Dr. Necmettin Erbakan and his friends between 1953 and 1955 at ITU Engines Institute is displayed in the museum.
The "astrolabe", designed in Andalusia and lost for a long time, is also exhibited at the ITU Museum.
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