Kars Cheese Museum — Local services in Kars Merkez

Kars Cheese Museum in northeastern Turkey attracts great attention from locals and foreign tourists as it is 18th cheese museum in the world and the first in Turkey. When you go inside, they explain, especially Kars' cheeses, from its production to the sale process. There is a plateau section, a milking area and an endemic plant section. They have sections where they introduce Ottoman houses and Russian buildings. In the museum, tools used in making cheese such as storage tanks, gruyere cooking apparatuses, casks for yeast, and salt molds have also been put on display while cheesemaking is animated as well. They include the history representations of Kars Station, Kars' vegetation, Ankara Gazi Station, gruyere production hall, cheese hall, Kars' houses, chef's working station and workshop areas. WC...

It's a compact quirky private museum, based in cool depths of a former bastion - the history of which is laid out as you enter. The exposition is concise and media-rich, a pleasant balance in my view. Translation into English is machine, so a bit rough around the corners, but the gist comes through, and it's equal to the amount of Turkish text, which is a treat. The whole thing takes about 30min, if you take your time, and costs ~1.5€, which I didn't grudge in the end. Light, amusing immersion into the history of cheesemaking in the...

If you love cheese go visit the place. If you have few minutes to spare, just check it out.

The installation is simply fantastic as they really went with the cheese theme. Both educational in depth and entertaining.

Great for children and large families alike for anybody who loves a nice both life size and miniature displays, local fauna and other miscellaneous bits of history of Kars.

Not to mention its very well ventilated as this place used to be a ice box, great to visit during a mid day...