Eskişehir Meerschaum Museum

Eskişehir Meerschaum Museum (Turkish: Lületaşı Müzesi) is a handicraft museum in Odunpazarı district of Eskişehir, Turkey, exhibiting various items handmade of sepiolite (Meerschaum).

Sepiolite or Meerschaum is a soft white clay mineral, which is mainly used to handicraft tobacco pipes called Meerschaum pipes. The opaque and off-white, grey or cream colored mineral is soft when extracted. However, it hardens on exposure to solar heat or when dried in a warm place. This feature allows it to give a permanent shape after carving it at soft state. Meerschaum deposits are found in Eskişehir region, generally at first rank in the world, in depths up to 150 m (490 ft).

The exhibited items of the museum were collected by Eskişehir Governorship during the International Meerschaum Festival, Meerschaum handicraft competitions and exhibits held in Eskişehir since 1998. Around 400 items handmade by 60 artisans were left to Odunpazarı Municipality. The museum was established by Odunpazarı Municipality inside the Kurşunlu Complex at Odunpazarı as the world's only in its kind in 2008.

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Bekir Punar
11 April 2017
Luletasindan yapılmış objeler var. Tabii ki ağırlık pipo. Keşke luletasindan obje yapımını gösterir bir atölye veya ortam da olsa idi. Ücretsiz olması da ????
Burak
10 July 2017
Kurşunlu Külliyesi dahilinde bulunan, ziyaret edip zaman geçirilebilecek bir mekan. Eskişehir'e özgü lüle taşına milim milim işlenen emeği görebilirsiniz.
SADECE N.B
25 March 2013
Ula taş işleme ustaları, biraz da bu sanatın içine Türk mitolojilerini ve Türk tiplerini katsaydınız; Türk desenlerini katsaydınız; ne olurdu?
Arife Tulum
27 February 2017
Lüle taşı Eskişehirin ünlü bir taşı. Taşın özellikleri öncelikle nikotin çekme özelliği var o yüzden pipo,ağızlık yapılıyor. Birde stres alma özelliği var. Lületasi emici bir taştır.
Hüseyin Erikler
18 May 2014
Görülmesi gereken bir yer. Özellikle bulunduğu mekan ve lüle taşı işlemeler süperr
Ferhan Emiroğlu
30 October 2019
Külliyeye kadar gitmişken görmekte fayda var zaten girişi de ücretsiz küçük bir yer odun pazarına varmışken rahatlıkla yürüyerek ulaşabiliyorsunuz
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Paşa, Kemal Zeytinoğlu Cd. No:2, 26030 Odunpazarı/Eskişehir, Turkey Get directions
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Fri Noon–6:00 PM
Sat 9:00 AM–7:00 PM
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Tue 11:00 AM–5:00 PM

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