Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality has started to work for the Earthquake Museum, which will reflect the destruction caused by the earthquake disaster in all its reality, not to forget the earthquake and to convey the importance of the measures.
The Earthquake Museum to be built in Nurdağı, which has suffered the most damage from the severe earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş, will keep the memories of the citizens lost in the earthquake and will also provide training on earthquake. The Earthquake Museum will provide lessons to be learned while telling the earthquake disaster once again, and will be an experience and education center that will be transferred to the next generations in the best way possible.
There will be an experience, education, memorial and library research center in the museum, which will bring citizens, students and people from the world of science together.
For the museum, where the geological structure of the region and the seismological event experienced will be explained in a way that the citizens can understand, an area of 10 thousand square meters was determined in the Nurdağı district center, which includes the destroyed, damaged and surviving buildings. With earthquake simulations in the area, what needs to be done during and after the earthquake will be conveyed to the citizens.
GÜRSEL: IT WILL BE AN EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION CENTER
Serdar Murat Gürsel, Director of the Conservation, Implementation and Control Branch of the Metropolitan Municipality Department of Reconstruction, who gave information about the museum works carried out, stated that the museum emerged as a new idea after the wounds of the earthquake were healed and said:
“The idea of an earthquake museum, which will be an experience and training center about the memories of our losses here, the spatial and physical images of the earthquake, all the destruction caused by the earthquake, and as a result, how construction techniques should be used for this, came to the fore. The losses experienced in the earthquake, the memories of our losses, the spatial destruction caused by the earthquake and as a result of this, more accurate construction techniques, and points that will tell the geological and seismological story of the event will be created. We are excited to be establishing a very nice experience center that explains what the citizens who will come there with simulations should do.”
IT WILL BE A BEAUTIFUL PROJECT TO SHOW THE FUTURE GENERATIONS "HOW TO DO THE JOB RIGHT"
Gürsel said that among 11 provinces, Nurdağı suffered the most proportional loss in the earthquake, and concluded his speech as follows:
“It was the right idea for us to build this museum in Nurdağı. Meetings, sharing of experiences and oral archive studies continue. We aim to get everything that will be explained in this matter. With the construction of the museum, we will be waiting for our museum, which is the center of commemoration and experience, with the visit of all citizens, students in schools and citizens from all regions of Turkey who will come to our region, where everyone will learn lessons on this subject. I believe it will be a good project to show the future generations how to do the job by learning lessons here.”