The construction of the Ankara Museum of Painting and Sculpture building, designed by architect Arif Hikmet Koyunoğlu, which was established in 1927, began on Namazgah Hill as the headquarters of the Turkish Stove Company and was completed in 1930. In 1975, it was assigned to the General Directorate of Fine Arts at the Ministry of Culture to be used as a museum for painting and sculpture. Today the museum houses the entire collection of the Ankara Museum of Painting and Sculpture; Presented in a historical context from the Ottoman Empire to the present Republic, from the 1960s to the 1990s to the present, the Museum also reveals its strong representation by hosting distinctive artworks in rotating exhibitions every year.