Established on August 18, 2014, by businessman Dursun Keskin in memory of his son Reha Keskin, it is Turkiye's first antique tractor museum.
The Antique Tractor Museum showcases tractors and agricultural equipment, each with unique characteristics, used in farming services and activities from the late 1800s to 1963, for the enjoyment of today's public. The museum, located in Gelibolu, holds the distinction of being Turkiye's first Antique Tractor Museum. It was established in 2014 by businessman Dursun Keskin to honor the memory of his late son, Reha Keskin. The Antique Tractor Museum is not only a destination for tractor enthusiasts, but also an invaluable discovery for those who want to read the history of world agriculture through tractors.
Located in Gelibolu, the museum displays around 100 tractors of various makes, models, and functions produced in various European countries and Turkiye over the last two centuries, along with spare parts and agricultural tools and equipment. In 2022, it was selected as the "museum with the best restoration."
The museum boasts a collection of tractors that have witnessed history from the steam-powered tractors of the 1800s to the recent past, tractors that have been the subject of different stories in dozens of countries, seen wars, peace, and revolutions, and over these two centuries, some have become legendary tractors, while others have become legends of tractors.
While there are no limitations on enriching the museum's content, useful antique tractors are purchased without delay to expand the museum's inventory. Although most of the tractors are currently out of production, all of our restored tractors are in working order.
The oldest tractor in the museum is a Nicholss & Shepard brand steam tractor manufactured in the USA in 1884. The museum's founder, Dursun Keskin, purchased this tractor from Belgium and had it restored.
Almost all of the tractors were in a dilapidated state when purchased. A team of experts meticulously restored the tractors through intensive efforts. All the tractors in the museum have original colors and spare parts.
Parts for the tractors, sourced from various regions of Turkiye, were found in Turkiye. Parts for tractors purchased from Europe were obtained from tractor spare parts manufacturers and antique markets in European countries and brought to Turkey. There are no non-working tractors or agricultural equipment in the museum. They are all in working order.
Dursun Keskin, the founder of the Antique Tractor Museum, says that the museum, which is visited by approximately twenty thousand people a year, tells stories about agricultural production through its silent language to people of all professions who know how to look at it.