Museum of history of nature created by order of President atatürk (Mustafa Kemal). Seventh of February, 1968, the Museum opened its doors to visitors. Since 2004 and until recently it was closed for restoration. After repairs, the complex was opened under the name of the Ankara Museum of natural history, which is one of the outstanding museums of nature in Turkey. Presented here is a natural exhibits Dating back millions of years, including precious stones and minerals. The Museum has a special Department for the blind, in which the exhibits are explained using a Braille font and audio, so visually impaired visitors can walk through the Museum, not needing the assistance of a guide.

The Museum has a collection of over 10,000 exhibits, in addition to seventy-five thousand units is now in the Museum's archives in preparation for the exhibition. The Museum is housed in the building of the General Directorate of MTA, occupies 4000 square meters and has three floors and five main sections.

The first floor is completely dedicated to paleontology, where 6400 exhibits. Here is a stuffed dinosaur, bought in America, exhibited a mockup of an elephant that lived fifteen million years ago in France, and was donated to the Museum by benefactors from France. In addition, we assemble a skeleton Marash elephant, found in the swamp "of Gavur gel, lived a thousand years before our era.

In this section you will find the fossilized remains of a huge slope, with a length of one meter and a half, which dwelt 193 million years ago in Ankara – Kisaralik. Also here are the footprints of ancient people who lived in Asia Minor of twenty-five thousand years ago, the jawbone of a whale that lived in Anatolia and discovered in Adana-Karataş.

In addition, here you can find flora and fauna found in the region Kizilcahamam-Govem. The exhibits presented here on this site is approximately thirteen to fifteen million years ago. It also offers the visitors more than a hundred species of plants and insect families, among which marked extinct species and those that are endangered.

The second floor of the Museum is reserved for exhibits that provide information about the Mineralogy and also meet international standards values. There are about 3,300 units. In this section of the Museum is the moonstone, which was delivered by an American astronaut who flew to the moon. Stone has another name "Siverskiy stone".

On this floor there are all kinds of stones and varieties of Turkish marble, as well as the meteorite, which fell in 1989, the village Yildizeli-Sheikh Khalil.

Even on the second floor there is a section where you can find all types of tools and metals for Metalworking, a collection of alloys, numbering two hundred samples.

The Museum also features an exhibition that shed light on all of the survey work of the office of the MTA, provides the means of work, studies, show information, and other artifacts.

The Museum is visited by approximately forty to fifty thousand visitors a year. He publishes books, guides, leaflets, brochures, serve for the convenience of Museum visitors. It is the venue of the conference, demonstrates the slides and documentary films. He is actively involved in education: elementary, secondary, higher, provides youth rare information on the natural history of our Earth.