Ürgüp Büyükakten Yeraltı Evi Müzesi

Useful Information

Location:	Temenni, Kılıçarslan Sk. no:22, 50400 Ürgüp/Nevşehir. (38.6317581, 34.9108929)
Open:	All year Mon 10-19, Tue-Sun 9-19. [2026]
Fee:
Classification:	Cave House
Light:	Electric Light
Dimension:
Guided tours:	self guided, D=1 h.
Photography:	allowed
Accessibility:	no
Bibliography:
Address:	Ürgüp Büyükakten Yeraltı Evi Müzesi, Temenni, Kılıçarslan Sk. no:22, 50400 Ürgüp/Nevşehir, Tel: +90-544-340-28-50.
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History

1980s	cave house abandoned.
2018	museum opened to the public.

Description

Ürgüp Büyükakten Yeraltı Evi Müzesi (Ürgüp Büyükakten Underground House Museum) is a museum located inside a seven floor cappadocia subterranean house. The local history museum has furniture and other daily life item of life in Cappadokia 100 years ago. At this time water was carried by hand from the Karamanoğlu Mosque and there was no electricity. The rooms were dug into the rock, many things like cupboards were carved into the rock.

The museum is named after the city Ürgüp and after the owner Yüksel Büyükakten, who restored the house and made it available to all travelers. Today it is operated by his son Ömer Büyükakten. His grandmother was living here in the 1920s, and most of the furniture is actually from her. The museum is recreating the daily life of that time, and there are frequently events where the tandoori is lit again. Bread and other food are cooked, grapes crushed, pekmez syrup and tomato boiled, and carpets weaved.

The museum is entered at its upper floor on Temenni Hill. Here is the former living space of the grandmother. There is a kitchen, a living room, a bridal room, a bedroom, a stable platform, and tunnels. Following the main tunnel with 15 side rooms for 250 m the