Born in Konya in 1900, Izzet Koyunoglu is an important character, who dedicated himself to collect, protect and hand down the next generations the ancient works. In 1973 he granted the works collected by him since 1913 to Konya Municipality with no thought of personal gain. Works were firstly exhibited in Koyunoglu's own home and later they were started to be exhibited in Museum and Library Building constructed under his name near Koyunoglu Home in 1984. Koyunoglu Library and Museum is first

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... cial museum established by municipalities in Turkey. Other than amendments performed related with it, a detailed work was not carried out in this building that celebrated 30th anniversary in 2014. It was requested to renew this building in order to bring it into compliance with today's conditions because of importance given to this matter by Konya Metropolitan Municipality.