İlhan Koman Sculpture and Painting Museum
İlhan Koman Sculpture and Painting Museum is located in the Anıt-Kent Edirne, which has been the capital of many civilizations with its art history and cultural values. The museum is the Old Edirne Train Station Building, which serves as the Faculty of Fine Arts of Trakya University, located in the Karaağaç District, which has a large garden, mansions and mansions, which have the architectural characteristics of the period, and which was joined to Turkish lands as a war indemnity with the “Lausanne Treaty”, the identity card of the Republic of Turkey. It is located in. İlhan Koman's father, Dr. Fuat Koman worked in this building as a Railways doctor in the 1940s. Edirne Train Station II. It was built by Abdulhamid. The Station Building was built in neoclassical style by Architect Kemalettin Bey on behalf of the Eastern Railways Company. It has three floors, rectangular plan and 80m. long Edirne Train Station is one of the most important stations of the railway connecting Istanbul to Europe. In the Treaty of Lausanne signed on July 24, 1923, Karaağaç, together with Bosnaköy, was given to Turkey as war indemnity in return for the damage done by Greece in Western Anatolia. After the new railway line between Pehlivanköy and Edirne was opened in August 1971 and the new station building was put into service in the city, the Kaarağaç Station Building was taken out of service. Edirne Train Station Building was built in 1977, the Edirne Academy of Engineering and Architecture, which was the foundation of Trakya University. served as the building. The building, which has been restored by Trakya University in accordance with its original form, has been serving the university since 1998. The museum, which is currently located in Edirne Station Building, was approved by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism dated 23.10.2002 and B.16.0.AMG.0.10.00.01708.1. It was first established under the name of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Museum in the Medicine Madrasa of the II. The opening of the museum took place on September 23, 2002, the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Trakya University. Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Museum, which was moved to Karaağaç Campus Old Train Station on 20.07.2011, was renamed İlhan Koman Sculpture and Painting Museum with the decision of the University Senate, dated 21 November 2011 and numbered 17. Dr. Ayla Ersoy, Prof. Dr. Ali Candas and Prof. Dr. All of the works in the museum, which was created under the consultancy of Basri Erdem, were donated by the artists. It was first established under the name of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Museum in the Medicine Madrasa of the II.Bayezid Complex with the inscription numbered 16843. The opening of the museum took place on September 23, 2002, the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Trakya University. The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Museum, which was moved to the Karaağaç Campus Old Train Station on 20.07.2011, was named İlhan Koman Sculpture and Painting Museum with the decision no.
