The house is situated on Aralık street, close to the Islamic-Ottoman social complex of Sultan Murat II, in the Muradiye district of Bursa. It was expropriated, restored, and opened to visitors as a museum in 1958 by the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums of the Ministry of Education. It underwent repairs and was reopened for exhibitions in 1973 and 1992. The building comprises a basement, ground floor, and first floor. Access to the basement is from the north, while the ground and first floors are accessible from the courtyard on the west. The eastern façade of the house, which rests on a stone foundation, is plastered up to the first floor level. Zigzag bricks were used between wooden beams on the slightly protruding first floor. The façade of the house features crenellated windows at the basement level, rectangular windows on the ground floor, and round arched gypsum moulded skylights above the rectangular windows on the first floor, all with wooden sashes. The west facade is divided by wooden posts, and the ground floor has a balcony with a wooden balustrade. The upper floor has Bursa arch style windows that open to the outside. The northern part of the house is plastered, while the south façade is deaf. The building can be accessed through a six-step staircase located on the south of the axis on the west façade. Inside, there is a sofa with an open iwan, an iwan, and a room on either side of the iwan. This plan is repeated on the upper floor. The low-ceilinged ground floor has wooden flooring and ceiling without any ornamental elements. On the upper floor, a sofa with an iwan, an iwan and two symmetrical rooms opening to the iwan showcase the finest examples of 17th-century wooden ornamentation. The sofa's ceiling features zigzag patterns in cream, green, and red, while the iwan's ceiling is adorned with star motifs in the center and hexagons around it. The sofa, central iwan, and side iwans are all bordered by a hand-drawn belt with rumi, palmette, and curled branch motifs.
MUSEUM OF OTTOMAN HOUSE
