The museum was established to tell the history of the grapevine in these lands, a plant that best teaches humanity that civilization should not dominate nature, but rather live in harmony with it and respect it.
Bengodi Boutique Hotel, a Viticulture and Wine Tourism Complex, also houses the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism's Private Vineyard Viticulture History Museum, the first museum of its kind in Turkey.
The museum aims to tell the 9,000-year history of viticulture in Anatolia and Thrace by exhibiting more than 100 artifacts, both original and replica, in chronological order.
The Vineyard Museum can be visited free of charge every day of the week between 09:00 and 19:00.
"When people learned to cultivate olives and grapes, they escaped barbarism." These lines belong to the historian Thucydides, who lived in the 5th century BC. He may not have known it; however, this great natural revolution took place in the lands of Anatolia. The grapevine and its fruit, the grape, were first cultivated in eastern Anatolia, the Caucasus, and northern Mesopotamia at almost the same time.
The museum was established based on this knowledge, with the aim of telling the history of the grapevine in these lands, the plant that best teaches humanity that civilization should not dominate nature, but live in harmony with it and respect it. This is told through a 9,000-year-old story.
This work was carried out with the country's leading artists in the field of replica works. The museum should not be just a "replica museum"; With the understanding that genuine artifacts should also be exhibited, many original artifacts from the Hellenistic and Roman periods have also been presented to the exhibition.
Original examples of the oldest drinking vessels of Anatolia are presented in the same collection as select finds from Nevali Cori to Hacilar.
There is a unique historical narrative covering the journey of viticulture culture from the first human-figured vessels in the 8th millennium BC to the Roman period.
There is an opportunity to discover rare drinking vessels such as the gold vessels of the Hatti culture and the colorful Hacilar ceramics together for the first time in Turkey.